Christos P. Sotiriou received his BEng in Computer Science and Electronics, and PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2001. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Thessaly and Founder and General Partner at Silicon Highway Technologies, an niche EDA technologies company based in Volos, Greece. He has published several R&D works include design methodologies for synchronous or asynchronous digital circuits and systems, Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Algorithms, Tools and Flows for digital circuit implementation, physical design, lower-power design, reliability and Power, Performance and Area (PPA) optimisation. Prof. Sotiriou has received three Qualcomm Faculty Awards, in 2019, 2020 and 2021, and has collaborated with several large corporations on EDA tools and flows development, circuit implementation and physical design.