Nikos Tsourveloudis received the B.S. degree in production engineering and management in 1990 and the Ph.D. in industrial engineering in 1995, both from the Technical University of Crete (TUC), Chania, Greece.

From 1992 to 1995 he was President of the Association of Industrial Engineers of Greece. During the academic years 1997 and 1998, he worked as a Research Scientist at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana, USA. In the 2006 fall semester he was visiting professor at the University of South Florida, Tampa. Currently, he is an Associate Professor and Director of the Machine Tools Lab and the Intelligent Systems and Robotics Lab at TUC. His research interests are in the areas of intelligent control, modeling and scheduling of flexible and computer integrated manufacturing systems, autonomous operation/navigation of robotic vehicles, virtual reality and fuzzy logic applications.

Dr. Tsourveloudis is a member of numerous professional and scientific organizations. The NSF and LEQSF, the European Union, the Hellenic GSRT, the EADS-3SIGMA and other private companies have funded his research.