Thanasis Vakouftsis graduated from Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Peloponnese. He holds a Msc in Data Science from the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of the NCSR Demokritos. He is a tech enthusiast and his interests are development of mobile applications, data mining, data analysis and processing with the help of machine learning techniques. Currently he is a research associate in the Integrated Systems Lab in the Institute of Informatics and Telecomunications in NCSR Demokritos.