Dr. Apostolos Meliones received a diploma with honours in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras, in 1994, and a Ph.D. degree in distributed systems and telecoms from the National Technical University of Athens, in 1999. Since 1994 to 1999, he held a research position at NTUA. He was the initiator and coordinator of the ESPRIT INNO Technology Transfer Node on High Performance Computing and Networking, and of the successful ESPRIT EROPPA project on the use of metacomputing and distributed supercomputing in the post-production industry. From 2001 until 2005 he was Technical Manager of Network Embedded Systems at Ellemedia Technologies, a Lucent product development partner. In January 2006 he joined inAccess Networks, as an R&D Manager. Mr. Meliones was the project manager of the ESA SATWAYS, Eurostars Z-PHONE and NetHomEra, HTCI/A2, ESPRIT EROPPA and INNO TTN, Tender III/98/028 Tetramed, and several national research activities, coordinator of the application of the Hellenic Semiconductor Industry Association in the framework of the Hellenic Technology Cluster Initiative and member of the Project Coordination Committee of ICT-FET ATRACO, CELTIC IMPULSE and GENIO, ENIAC END and AAL PeerAssist projects. He is the Project Manager of the recent T1RCI-593 MANTO R&D project that developed innovative state-of-the-art autonomous outdoor and indoor blind navigation applications using smartphones, and of the KALLIPOS+ open access coursebook 556 on Embedded Systems. He non-profitably designed and implemented and put into production the widely used talking books web library of the Lighthouse for the Blind of Greece, which hosts more than 6,000 audiobooks (27,000 certified visits and 9,000 audiobook downloads in 2024). Currently he is a Full Professor at the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, where he has been teaching since 2005. He has received the Bodosakis Foundation grant and State Scholarships Foundation awards for excellence in academics. He is the author of over 100 publications in the areas of distributed systems, metacomputing, fault-tolerant supercomputing, total quality management of broadband networks, network embedded systems, telecommunication systems, audiovisual systems, real-time systems, industrial HPCN, satcom applications and pervasive computing. He is the developer of the open source MPC8260 Linux ATM device driver for the PowerQUICC-II family of communication processors which has been widely used worldwide.