Antonios Makris received the B.Sc. degree from the Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University of Athens, and the M.Sc. degree in the area of web engineering. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University of Athens. He has participated in numerous EU funded and national projects, including Fortissimo (FP7), Asylum (Ministry of Immigration Policy), Productive 4.0 (ECSEL), MASTER and SmartShip (H2020), GLASSEAS (OP Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning), and CHARITY (H2020). His main research interests include distributed computing, big data management and analysis, NoSQL database systems, high performance computing (HPC), spatiotemporal and trajectory analysis, and machine/deep learning.