Nicholas AmpazisNicholas Ampazis holds a BEng (Hons) degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Imperial College London (1992), an MSc degree with Distinction in Information Processing and Neural Networks from the Department of Mathematics, King's CollegeLondon (1995), and a PhD with Distinction from the Department of Electical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (2001). From 1996 to 2001 he was a scholar with the Institute of Informatics at the National Center from Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens, Greece. From 2002 to 2005 he was an adjunct professor at the Department of Financial and Management Engineering (FME), University of the Aegean, and since 2005 he is an assistant professor (computer science) at the same department. He is also the director of the Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory (IDEAL) at the FME department. His research interests include computational intelligence algorithms (with emphasis in neural networks), data mining, information retrieval, recommender systems and supply chain management, and he has published over 40 papers journal and conference papers in these research areas. Read More Read Less