Elias Glytsis received his undergraduate diploma from National Technical University of Athens (Greece) in Electrical Engineering in 1982, and his MSEE and PhD degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1984 and 1987, respectively. From January 1988 till June 2003, he served as a Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Georgia Institute of Technology. In July 2003 he joined the faculty at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of National Technical University of Athens in Greece at the rank of a tenured Professor. Dr. Glytsis is a senior member of IEEE, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, a member of EURATOM-Hellenic Republic, and a member of the Greek Society of Professional Engineers.