Sergey Vesnin was born in Frunze, USSR. He received an engineering degree from the Moscow Electronics and Communication Institute in 1979. He received a PhD degree in engineering in 1986 from MIREA in the field of electrodynamic models for the computer-aided design of microstrip circuits. From 1986, he was the Head of the Laboratory of Passive Microwave Filter Design at the All-Russian Research Institute of Radio Engineering (ARIRE) in Moscow and, later, the Head of the Receivers Division. He created the RES Company in 1994, which is developing and producing world-leading medical microwave radiometers for breast cancer detection. Additionally, he is an assistant professor at Bauman Moscow State Technical University. He has received a government award from the Russian Federation. His interests include microwave radiometry, microwave devices including filters and amplifiers, and new applications of microwave technologies in healthcare