Alexander Gegov holds a PhD in Cybernetics and a DSc in Artificial Intelligence – both from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and is an Associate Professor in Computational Intelligence in the School of Computing at the University of Portsmouth, and is also a Visiting Professor in Control Theory in the English Faculty of Engineering at the Technical University of Sofia. Alexander Gegov has been a recipient of a national award for best young researcher from the Bulgarian Union of Scientists, the Humboldt Guest Researcher at the Universities of Duisburg and Wuppertal in Germany, and the EU Visiting Researcher at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Alexander Gegov’s research interests are in the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning methods, as well as their application for modelling and simulation of complex systems and networks.