Professor Irina Perfilieva, Ph.D., Dr. h.c., Prof. h. c., received the degrees of M.S. (1975) and Ph.D. (1980) in Applied Mathematics from the Lomonosov State University in Moscow, Russia. She is Professor Honoris Causa in Amity Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India, and Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Latvia, Latvia. At present, she is a full professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. She is the author and co-author of six books on mathematical principles of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic, and of over 270 papers in the area of fuzzy logic, fuzzy approximation, fuzzy relation equations and image processing.