He received the engineering and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece, in 2006 and 2010, respectively. He has carried out research and/or didactic activities at Politecnico di Milano, the Joint Research Center of the European Commission, the National Research Council of Italy, and Bocconi University. Currently, he is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access and a member of the IEEE Computational Intelligent Society Task Force on Computational Audio Processing, while his research interests include content-based signal processing, audio pattern recognition, machine learning, and cyber physical systems.