Natalia Markovich received an M.S. degree in mathematics (with distinction) from the Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics Department of Tver University, Russia, and a Ph.D. and habilitation in statistics from the Institute of Control Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. She is a main scientist at the Institute of Control Sciences. Her research experiences and interests include extreme value statistics, extreme value theory, extremes in random graphs, nonparametric estimation, statistical analysis of heavy-tailed distributions and rare events, and density estimation. She is involved in numerous research projects addressing various issues of statistical analysis of measurements in random networks and telecommunication systems, including the Internet.