Janez Povh is an associate professor and a senior researcher at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of mechanical engineering. He has received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. in mathematics from University of Ljubljana. His research activities vary from pure mathematical optimization topics, like developing new methods for (non-commutative) polynomial optimization problems, to more applied areas such as applications of mathematical optimization methods and tools in data science and complex networks analysis. He has published approx. 40 journal papers (including 20 papers in top mathematical optimization journals), many papers in conference proceedings, several book chapters and a book with Springer Verlag.