Georgios Kornaros is currently with the Applied Informatics and Multimedia Department of the Technological Educational Institute of Crete in Greece and also with the Technical University of Crete, Greece. In the past he worked as a systems architect and designer of single-chip switches and network processor designs for a few research institutes and companies. Kornaros has taped out three single-chip multi-core devices for networking. As a technical manager of the Digital Integrated Systems Group of ISD SA (2000) and later, also as Technical Manager of Ellemedia Technologies Ltd. Crete Department (2001-2005), he designed a few network processors. His research interests include high-speed communication architectures, networking systems, multi-core architectures, embedded and reconfigurable systems, full and semi-custom IC design. Kornaros is the author or co-author of more than 40 publications in refereed international conferences and journals. He is an IEEE member and a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.