Igor Bychkov – Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences, professor, Ph.D., director of the Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, scientific leader of the Irkutsk Scientific Center of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a member of a number scientific and expert councils, editorial boards of scientific journals. He is an expert for the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Russian Scientific Foundation, Russian Academy of Sciences. He leads a number of national and international research projects. His main interests include artificial intelligence, geoinformation systems, WEB-technologies, systems of intelligent data analysis, mathematical modelling, cloud computing.