Andreas Kapsalis received his degree in telecommunications from the University of Peloponnese, Greece, in 2010. In 2012 he received his MSc diploma from the Department of Digital Systems at the University of Piraeus, Greece. From 2011 onward, he has been a PhD student at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and a Research Associate in the Athens Institute of Communications and Computer Systems (ICCS). His research interests include big data, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, e-health, and service-oriented architectures. He can be reached at akapsalis at icbnet.ece.ntua.gr.