Dimitris Mitropoulos is an Assistant Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and Head of the Reliability Engineering Directorate at the Greek National Infrastructures for Research and Technology (GRNET). Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University. He holds a PhD in Software Security from the Athens University of Economics and Business and has contributed to several EU- and US-funded R&D projects. He has led the design and implementation of advanced infrastructures supporting critical digital governance services. Among other distinctions, he has received the “Research Excellence Award” from NKUA and a “Distinguished Paper Award” at the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). His research interests include software engineering and computer security. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, and USENIX.