Panagiotis Mermigkas was born in Athens in 1987. He received the Diploma degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Patras in February 2013. His diploma thesis, supervised by Associate Prof. Vassilis Paliouras, involved the design and hardware implementation of a Maximum-Likelihood decoder for LDPC codes, as well as improvements that led to reduction in area and power consumption.

Panagiotis is currently a PhD student in the CVSP Group, school of ECE, NTUA, under the supervision of Prof. Petros Maragos.