PITTARAS NIKIFOROS I am an research associate in NCSR Demokritos. I hold a Bsc degree in Computer Science from the University of Ioannina, where my undergraduate thesis focused on image registration through unified particle swarm optimization. I am currently pursuing my Msc in Signal and Information Processing and Learning at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens. I have previously worked as a research associate at the Information Technologies Institute Center of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH/ITI) and as a freelance programmer.