Nikos E. Mastorakis (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. (Diploma) degrees in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece, and the B.Sc. (Ptychion) degree in pure mathematics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens. He studied medicine at the Medical School of Athens and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He was a Special Scientist in Computers and Electronics with the Hellenic (Greek) Army General Staff from 1993 to 1994, where he taught several courses in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, NTUA, from 1998 to 1994. He was a visiting professor with the School of Engineering, University of Exeter, Exeter, U.K., in 1998, and a visiting professor with the Technical University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria, from 2003 to 2004, where he is currently a professor. He is a registered professional electrical and mechanical engineer. He has authored more than 800 papers in international journals and conferences and has received more than 6,600 citations. He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the A. F. Communications and Electronics Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and other smaller scientific societies. He is the Editor-in-Chief of many international journals. He was the general chairperson at more than 30 international conferences. He has organized more than 40 special sessions and three workshops and has given many plenary lectures