Amalia Miliou (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. She is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research interests include simulation of optoelectronic circuits, optical switching, optical RAM, converged fiber-wireless technology, 5G networks, and secure optical communications using chaos. She is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed journals and conference papers, and she has actively participated in several research projects funded by the European Commission, NATO, as well as the Greek Government as a Co-Ordinator and as a Senior Researcher. She has served as Program Committee Member in several international conferences.