Diomidis Spinellis holds an MEng in Software Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science both from Imperial College (University of London, UK). Currently he is a Professor at the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece. He has provided consulting services to a number of Greek and international Information Technology companies and has been involved in several national and EU funded R&D projects in the areas of E-Commerce, Computer Security, Language Engineering, and Scientific Visualisation. He is the author of the book Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective (Addison-Wesley, 2003) and more than 70 technical articles and conference papers. He has contributed software to the BSD Unix distribution, the X-Windows system, and is the author of a number of open-source software packages, libraries, and tools. His research interests include Ubiquitous Computing, Information Security and Software Engineering.

Dr. Spinellis is a member of the ACM, the IEEE, the Greek Computer Society, the Technical Chamber of Greece, and a founding member of the Greek Internet User's Society. He is a co-recipient of the Usenix Association 1993 Lifetime Achievement Award.