GEORGE A. LAMPROPOULOS George A. Lampropoulos received his B.Sc. degree from the University of Patras, Greece in Systems;M.Sc. in Electronics and Ph.D. in Signal Processing degrees from Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada, all in Electrical Engineering. His specialization is in Systems, Electronics and Digital Signal Processing. Dr. Lampropoulos has been faculty member of the following Universities: Royal Military College (RMC), Kingston Ontario Canada (1984-1989);Adjunct Professor at Laval University (1987-1994);and Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto (1989). From 2008 to 2024 he was an adjunct professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Calgary. Among his graduate students was the former Chief of Defence Staff of Canada, General Thomas J. Lawson, and the former Dean of Engineering of RMC Dr. Derrick Bouchard. Among several successful organizations Dr. Lampropoulos is the founder/President of the Photonics North (www.photonicsnorth.com) Non-Profit Organization and A.U.G. Signals Ltd (www.augsignals.com). Dr. Lamprropoulos served for nine years as a member of the Defence Advisory Board (DAB) and chaired a committee on Canadian Defence Capabilities Areas (CDCA) and Defence Capabilities Investment Areas (DCIA) to be used as guidance by the Canadian Government for Defence Technology Development, Technology Transfer and focus on Economic Development Priorities of the country. Dr. Lampropoulos has been in the editorial board of several scientific Journals including the IEEE Transactions of Geoscience and Remote sensing and has organized special issues on Space Technology and currently (2023) the Special Issue "Feature Selection from SAR Images for Terrain Surface Classification" of the MDPI Remote Sensing Journal. In 2012 Dr. Lampropoulos was inducted as a fellow to the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) mainly for his contributions to Radar processing to defence applications, and he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. Among several Board memberships, Dr. Lampropoulos has been a member of the CDAI (Conference Defence Associations Institute (CDAI) of Canada and its advisory council, the DAB (Defence Advisory Board) of Canada and served many times on the selection committee of the VIMY awards (the most prestigious Canadian military award).