He received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the University of Patras in Patras, Greece, in 1994 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from UCF in 1997 and 2001 respectively. His research interests span the area of Machine Learning (ML) and include Artificial Neural Networks, Population-based Evolution of ML models, Support Vector Machines and other Kernel-based ML Methods.