Dr. Zacharias Voulgaris was born and raised in Greece. Upon completing a 5-year Engineering degree at the Technical University of Crete, he enrolled in the City University of London for a Masters course in Information Systems and Technology. Afterwards, he pursued a PhD in Birkbeck College (University of London), under the joint supervision of Prof. G. Magoulas and Prof. B. Mirkin, in the field of Machine Learning. Upon receiving his doctorate, he was recruited by the Georgia Institute of Technology as a research fellow. Since January 2013 he has been working as a Data Scientist.