Michalis 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. He received a BSEE (1997) and a MSEE (1998), both with honors, from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. During 1999-2007 he has worked in the Cyprus industry as a Medical Service Engineer and as an Information Technology Officer. In 2009, he received his PhD from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus and during the next two years he was employed as a research fellow at the KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks at the University of Cyprus. 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 irrigation systems, intelligent buildings and intelligent ports. In 2014, he received the Elsevier Building and Environment Journal Best Paper Award.