Sergios Theodoridis received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Birmingham, U.K, in 1978. He is currently a professor emeritus in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 15784, Greece, and a distinguished professor at Aalborg University, Aalborg 9220, Denmark. His research interests lie in the cross-section of signal processing and machine learning. He is the author of the book, Machine Learning: A Bayesian and Optimization Perspective, second edition, published by Academic Press in 2020, the coauthor of the best-selling book, Pattern Recognition, fourth edition, published by Academic Press in 2009, and co-author of the book, Introduction to Pattern Recognition: A MATLAB Approach, published by Academic Press in 2010. He is the co-author of seven papers that have received the Best Paper Awards, including the 2014 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper award and the 2009 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding Paper Award. He is the recipient of the 2021 IEEE SP Society Norbert Wiener Award, the 2017 EURASIP Athanasios Papoulis Award, the 2014 IEEE Signal Processing Society Carl Friedrich Gauss Education Award, and the 2014 EURASIP Meritorious Service Award. He has served as the vice president of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and president of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP). He currently serves as the chair of the IEEE SPS awards committee. He is a Fellow of EURASIP and a Life Fellow of IEEE.
Sotirios Chatzis received his M.Eng. degree in electrical and computer engineering and his Ph.D. degree inmachine learning from the National Technical University of Athens in 2005 and2008, respectively. He is currently an associate professor in the Departmentof Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Informatics at the CyprusUniversity of Technology, Limassol 3036, Cyprus, and serves as the elected department chair. He currently serves as PI of several research projects funded by the European Commission and Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation. His research interests lie in the fields of Bayesian deep learning. Characteristic application areas include recommendation systems, natural language understanding, video understanding, inference from financial data, as well as unbiasedness, exploitability and trustworthiness in the era of machine learning.