Pavlina Koleva received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications from the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria, in 2001 and 2013, respectively. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Telecommunications. She has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience in the field of telecommunications. She has been involved in numerous projects, related to software design, development, and support of various types of communication and data processing systems. Her main research interests are in Information Theory, Communication Networks, Game Theory, Cognitive networks, and Next Generation Networks, Big Data.