Vassilios Assimakopoulos was born in Athens, Greece in 1956. He is a Professor, at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, specialized in the scientific area of Decision Support Systems. Throughout his career as a member of the NTUA faculty, he has been actively involved in the application of decision support systems to complex business planning and operations issues. He has conducted research on the development of sophisticated management support tools within the framework of numerous projects, funded by either Greek or European institutions, organisations and firms.

He has extensive experience in Strategic Management, the Design and Development of Systems for the management of large IT Projects, Operations Management, Statistics and in time-series Forecasting techniques. He supervises the “Forecasting Systems Unit” of NTUA, a very active laboratory in terms of academic training and applied research in the field of Business Forecasting.

He has published more than 60 scientific papers in prestigious international scientific journals. His research has been highly acclaimed internationally, leading to numerous lectures in prominent Universities, as an invited speaker. He is the author of books in the scientific area of Forecasting and a reviewer in international scientific journals.