Yuri N. Matveev received PhD (1985) and DSc (1995) degrees in computer science from St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Russia (ITMO University). From 1985 to 1995 he was a Senior Researcher, Associate Professor and Postdoc with the Department of Computer Engineering at ITMO University, and, from 1996 to 1998, he was a Full Professor with the Department of Computing and Video Information Technologies, Baltic State Technical University, St. Petersburg, Russia. He worked as a Lead Consultant at the North-Western Investment Center (1999–2005), a Lead Specialist at the "ARKAN" Group Company (2006), a Chief Researcher at the Institute of Telecommunications (2007), a Project Manager and Head of the Speaker Verification and Identification Department, the Speech Technology Center Ltd. (2008–2011), and a Chief Scientist at STC-innovations (2011–present), St. Petersburg, Russia. From 2001 to 2018 he was Head of the Department of Speech Information Systems. Since 2018, he has been a Full Professor on Speech Technologies and Machine Learning and Head of the Laboratory on Computer Communication Technologies at ITMO University. He is the author of 3 books, more than 150 articles, and more than 20 national patents. His research interests include speaker recognition, face recognition, multimodal biometrics, dialog systems and conversational agents.