Theocharis (Theo) Theocharides is a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the University of Cyprus. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Penn State University, working under the supervision of Professors Mary Jane Irwin and Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, in the areas of low-power computer architectures and reliable system design. As a member of the Embedded and Mobile Computing Research Center at Penn State, Theo's research revolved around the development of low-power and reliable Systems-on-Chip, with emphasis in the underlying interconnection architectures. He was also a member of the Gigascale Systems Research Center, where he collaborated with leading researchers in the fields of low-power and reliable on-chip interconnection networks. His research focuses on the design of reliable and low power embedded and application specific processors, media processors and real-time digital artificial intelligence applications. Theo has authored and co-authored papers on Embedded and Application-Specific Systems-on-Chip, Networks-on-Chip, and hardware implementations of complex Multimedia and Machine Vision applications. He was honored with the Robert M. Owens Memorial Scholarship in 2005.