Marios D. Dikaiakos is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus, where he established and leads the High-Performance Computing Systems Laboratory and serves as Associate Chair of the Computer Science Department. Dikaiakos received his Ph.D. from Princeton University (1994), an M.A. degree from Princeton (1991), and a Dipl.-Ing. degree from the National Technical University of Athens (summa cum laude, 1988). He was a Research Associate at the University of Washington in Seattle (1994-1995) and spent a pre-doctoral internship at the Paris Research Lab of Digital Equipment Corporation (fall 1991). He has been been a Socrates/Erasmus visiting professor at the University of Crete and ICS FORTH (10/2004), and a visiting research professor at the Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University (Spring 2005). Dr Dikaiakos is a senior member of the ACM.