He received his PhD in 2014 in Computer Science from the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete and in Signal Processing & Telecommunications from the University of Rennes 1, France. He had been a member of Toshiba UK Speech Technology Group from 2015 to 2017. His research interests include: speech, audio, and biosignal  processing, with emphasis on their applications, machine learning, deep learning systems, emotional speech analysis and modeling, speech databases, and acoustic analysis algorithms for non-normophonic speakers.

He received his Ph.D. in 2011 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece. He was a PostDoctoral Researcher - Marie Curie Fellow (ER) - for 2 years in Genoa, Italy (at Softeco Sismat S.r.l.). His research interests include: Semantic Data Management, Knowledge Bases and Decision Support Systems, Data/Information Analysis, Medical Informatics with emphasis on Computer Aided Diagnosis/Detection, Medical image analysis/processing and 3D visualization.