Ioannis Mouchakis holds a BSc in Computer Science from the Department of Informatics of Athens University of Economics and Business, 2010. Since 2010 Mr Mouchakis is a research associate at NCSR-D, where he has worked on Research and Technology Development tasks in multiple European and national research projects. His expertise and interests include deployment, maintenance, and development for Big Data architectures, applied to a variety to domains such as event recognition, e-Governance, and agro-environmental modelling.