<p>Michail Maniatakos received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and Embedded Systems from the University of Piraeus, Greece, and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and the M.Sc. and M.Phil. degrees from Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. He is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE, and a Research Assistant Professor with the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, New York, NY, USA. He is also the Director of the MoMA Laboratory, NYU Abu Dhabi. His research interests, funded by industrial partners, the US Government, and the UAE Government, include robust microprocessor architectures, privacy-preserving computation, smart cities, as well as industrial control systems security. He has authored several publications in IEEE transactions and conferences, holds patents on privacy-preserving data processing, and also serves in the technical program committee for various international conferences.</p>