Evgenia Novikova graduated with honors from the Saint-Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI", Russia, in 2007 and received her Ph.D. in information security in 2010. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the Information System department of the Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University, and the senior researcher in the computer security problems laboratory of Saint Petersburg Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is the author of more than 40 research papers and 3 inventions. Her research interests include privacy and personal data security, privacy-preserving computations and machine learning-based anomaly and intrusion detection.