Alexander Feoktistov is a chief researcher and a deputy director for scientific work at the Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He also is an associate professor at the Graduate School of the Institute. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2000 and a Doctor of Technical Sciences degree in 2022 from the Institute. He leads a number of national research projects. His expertise and research interests are in the area of conceptual and computational models, parallel and distributed computing, scientific applications, simulation modeling, service-oriented paradigm, and testbeds.