Alexander N. Gorban (PhD, ScD, Professor) holds a Personal Chair in applied mathematics at the University of Leicester since 2004. He worked for Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch (Krasnoyarsk, Russia), and ETH Zürich (Switzerland), was a visiting Professor and Research Scholar at Clay Mathematics Institute (Cambridge, MA), IHES (Bures-sur-Yvette, Île de France), Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (New York), and Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Cambridge, UK). His main research interests are machine learning, data mining and model reduction problems, dynamics of systems of physical, chemical and biological kinetics, and biomathematics. He has been accorded the title of Pioneer of Russian Neuroinformatics (2017) for his extraordinary contribution into theory and applications of artificial neural networks, received Lifetime Achievement Award (MaCKIE-2015) in recognition of outstanding contributions to the research field of (bio)chemical kinetics, and was awarded by Prigogine medal (2003) for achievements in non-equilibrium theкmodynamics and physical kinetics. (https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=D8XkcCIAAAAJ - Alexander N. Gorban on GOOGLE Scholar).