Vadim Manusov was born in Lozovaya, Ukraine, USSR, in 1936. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Novosibirsk State Technical University, Russia, in 1963 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Novosibirsk State Technical University in 1986. From 1963 to 1982, he was an Assistant Professor at Novosibirsk State Technical University. Since 1982, he has been a Professor with the Department of Industrial Power Supply Systems, Novosibirsk State Technical University. He is the author of 17 books and more than 250 articles. His research interests include high-temperature superconducting transformers, artificial intelligence technologies (fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks, evolutionary algorithms) and probabilistic methods for design, forecasting, and control in electric power systems.