Yury V. Kistenev is a professor at the Laboratory of Laser Molecular Imaging and Machine Learning, at Tomsk State University (Russia). He is also the Deputy Vice Rector for Research at National Research Tomsk State University. He received his Ph.D. in Optics in 1987 and his doctorate in Physics and Mathematics in 1997. His current research interests include laser molecular imaging, IR and terahertz laser spectroscopy, and machine learning.