Iouliia Skliarova received her M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from the Belorussian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Minsk, Republic of Belarus, in 1998, and her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, in 2004. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics, Telecommunications, and Informatics, University of Aveiro. She has authored and co-authored six books and over 150 papers on subjects including reconfigurable systems, data processing, digital design, and combinatorial optimization. Her research interests include reconfigurable digital systems, application-specific architectures, hardware accelerators, and combinatorial optimization.