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Born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece. BSc in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (TokyoTech), Tokyo, Japan.

During his graduate studies at TokyoTech (1996-2002), he was a MEXT scholar, and member of the Sakaniwa - Isao Yamada lab. He stayed again at TokyoTech as a JSPS postdoc fellow from April 2004 to March 2006. Postdoc fellow at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece (ENTER program), from July 2006 till August 2007.

Served as tenured assistant professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Peloponnese, Tripolis, Greece (September 2007 - August 2012). From September 2012 till August 2015, he was a research associate at the Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota, and from May 2013 till August 2015 he served also as a research associate professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota. From August 2015 till December 2020, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, as a tenured associate professor. Since April 2021, he is a professor of the Department of Information and Communications Engineering of TokyoTech.

Served as associate editor (January 2009 - January 2013) and senior area editor (April 2010 - January 2015) of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. He was also an associate editor of Signal Processing (September 2016 - January 2018) and Journal of Advances in Signal Processing (April 2016 - January 2018). He is currently serving, since January 2018, Signal Processing as a senior/subject area editor. He was a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM, January 2012 - December 2017) and the EURASIP Signal and Data Analytics for Machine Learning (SiG-DML, August 2015 - January 2018) technical committees.

Few of his impressions on Japan can be found here.