Michalis P. Michaelides is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Informatics at the Cyprus University of Technology. He has held a tenure-track position since January 2012. Michalis research interests include communication systems, wireless sensor networks, event detection and localization, fault detection and diagnosis, fault tolerance, collaborative signal and information processing, computational intelligence with applications to environmental monitoring, intelligent systems and maritime informatics. Michalis has been involved as a principal investigator in many maritime research projects, both local (CUT, RPF) and European (EU, FP7) including the Sea Traffic Management Validation project (EU, 2016-2019) and the STEAM Project (RPF, INTEGRATED/0916/0063, 2019-2022). In 2014, he received the Elsevier Building and Environment Journal Best Paper Award.