Nik. Xiros is a Goldman endowed Professor with the Boysie Bollinger School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and the NAVSEA Professor of Marine Systems Design as well as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Orleans. His career spans more than 25 years in industry and academia. He served as Chair of the Bollinger School in 2021-24. During his tenure as Bollinger School Chair, he realized and oversaw the ABET accreditation renewal process of the Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering BSc program the School offers. The program was found exceptional and without weaknesses, deficiencies or concerns. His research and teaching activities encompass broad areas of electromechanical systems, marine engineering and technology incl. but not limited to multi-physics process modeling and simulation, system identification, dynamics and control, reliability, signal and data analysis with emphasis on marine propulsion, energy harvesting and conversion as well as applied hydrodynamics, mechatronics and autonomous systems. His education includes a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, a MSc in Mathematics, a MSc in Applied Physics and a Dr. Eng. degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. He has (co)authored numerous journal and conference papers and monographed “Robust Control of Diesel Ship Propulsion,” “Mathematical Magnetohydrodynamics” and “Feedback Linearization of Dynamical Systems with Modulated States for Harnessing Water Wave Power.” He is also a Chief Editor of the Springer Handbook of Ocean Engineering; in the same book, he was the part editor for Part E – Ocean Renewable Energy and author of chapters on digital signal processing, control theory and applications as well as on ocean wave energy conversion concepts. He is also editor for books series “Ocean Engineering & Oceanography”, “Naval Architecture, Marine Engineering, Shipbuilding & Shipping” and Synthesis Lectures on Ocean Systems Engineering.