Ivan Kholod is an expert in the fields of parallel and distributed data mining. In 2003, he received his Ph.D. in the Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI”, Russia. Since 2018, he is working in the position of Dean of the Department of Computer Engineering, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI”. In 2018, he defended a doctoral thesis in the area of distributed data mining. Specifically, his main research interests focus on data mining and parallel and distributed data mining. He has published more than 50 articles in these areas.