Iosif Polenakis is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Ionian University in the field of Programming and Systems Software. He received his degree from the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering. He received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Ionian University (2012) and continued his postgraduate studies in Theoretical Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science of the Ionian University. He has been working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics of the University of Ioannina, from which he obtained his Master's degree (2014) and PhD degree (2019). He has received a scholarship for his PhD thesis from the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (ELIDEK) and a scholarship for his Postdoctoral Research from the State Scholarship Foundation (IKY). His research work, through participation in research programs and projects funded by governmental institutions and national resources, concerns the design and implementation of integrated software systems, which, utilizing graph-based correlation modeling, aim at the prevention of epidemiological phenomena, the detection and classification of malware, as well as the hiding of authenticity and integrity information in digital objects, with several of his works being awarded with Best Paper Awards in international conferences.