Prof. Alkiviadis (Alkis) A. Hatzopoulos (Chatzopoulos) was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. He received his Degree in Physics (with honors), his Master Degree in Electronics and his Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the AUTH, Greece, in 1980, 1983 and 1989, respectively. He was granted scholarship from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (IKY) during all four years of studies in the Physics Department (1976-1980) and for his PhD research in Greece (three years). He has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of AUTH since 1981, were now he is a full Professor. Since 2002 he has been elected as the Director of the Electronics Laboratory of the ECE Dept. He was also being elected as Associate Teaching Personnel of the Hellenic Open University, Department of Informatics, for twelve years (2004-2017). He is actively involved in educational and research projects, and he is the author or co-author of more than 170 scientific papers in international journals and conference proceedings and three book chapters in international textbooks. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and he has served as the IEEE Greece CASS-SSCS joint Chapter Chair from 2010 to 2020.