Nikolaos Bellas is a Professor at the ECE Department of the University of Thessaly in Volos, Greece. He received the diploma in computer engineering and informatics from the University of Patras, Greece, in 1992, the MSc and PhD degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. His research interests include approximate computing, reconfigurable computing, low power design, CAD tools for architectural synthesis. From 1999 to 2007, he was a principal member of Technical Staff at Motorola Labs in the US. He was one of the architects of Falcon, an MPEG4 video decoding chip used by the first Motorola camera phone, and has worked extensively on architecting systems on chip for multimedia and imaging applications. He holds 10 issued US patents.