Dr. Dimitrios Tzovaras is a Senior Researcher (Researcher A’) and the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) President of the Board. He received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering and the Ph.D. in 2D and 3D Image Compression from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1992 and 1997, respectively. Prior to his current position, he was a Senior Researcher in the Information Processing Laboratory at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His main research interests include network and visual analytics for network security, computer security, data fusion, biometric security, virtual reality, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Dr. Tzovaras has participated and is also participating actively with his research group in more than 136 European Commission and 45 nationally funded Research and Development Projects. Dr. Tzovaras has conducted very important scientific and research work (825 publications in total), which is summarized in 3 books, 199 publications in International Journals with Referees, 54 book chapters, and 569 presentations in International Conferences with Referees. Dr. Tzovaras has also acted as a reviewer of a large number of submitted scientific papers for a plethora of International Journals and Magazines, such as IEEE, ACM, Elsevier, and EURASIP, as well as International Scientific Conferences (ICIP, EUSIPCO, CVPR, etc.). Since 2004, he has been the Associate Editor in the following international journals: Journal of Applied Signal Processing (JASP) and Journal on Advances in Multimedia of EURASΙP. He is also an Associate Editor in the IEEE Signal Processing Letters Journal (since 2009) and a Senior Associate Editor in the IEEE Signal Processing Letters journal (since 2012), while since mid-2012 he has been also an Associate Editor in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing journal. During the period 2007-2009, he was elected to participate in the group of National Representatives of Greece in the European Commission for the FP7 Programme of International Cooperation. Since 2000, Dr. Tzovaras has been leading the Virtual & Augmented Reality Lab of ITI, whereas he is the main responsible for the Digital Innovation Hub, namely nZEB (http://smarthome.iti.gr). He has participated with his team in more than 200 Research and Development projects of ITI. During the last 5 years, he has a very large management record having been the project coordinator of more than 22 projects and the technical/ scientific manager of 18 projects. He has been a lecturer of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki since 1992.