Wieslaw Marszalek received Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA. In the past, he held various research and teaching positions at state and private universities in North Carolina, Ohio, and New Jersey (all in the USA). He was a Humboldt Research Fellow in Bochum (1990-92), Hamburg (1996) and Halle (2011), all in Germany, and a Fulbright Research Fellow in Warsaw (2005-2006) and Opole (2018), both in Poland. He currently teaches computer science at Opole University of Technology, Poland. He has published over 100 journal and conference papers in the areas of 2D discrete equations, differential-algebraic equations, nonlinear circuits, electric arcs, memristors, hardware Trojans, singularity induced bifurcations and chaos.