Prof. Dr. Petko Petkov received an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from The Technical University of Sofia in 1971. Since 1973 he has been on the faculty of The Technical University of Sofia, where he was a professor in the Department of Systems and Control. Since 2015, he has been with the Department of Engineering Sciences of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include numerical methods and software for control systems design, applications of robust control theory, and matrix computations. He is an author and co-author of several research articles and the books Computational Methods for Linear Control Systems (Hemel Hempstead: Prentice Hall, 1991), Perturbation Theory for Matrix Equations (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2003), Robust Control Design with MATLAB® (London: Springer, 2005, 2013), Design of Embedded Robust Control Systems Using MATLAB® and Simulink® (London: IET, 2018), Perturbation Methods in Matrix Analysis and Control (New York: Nova Science, 2020) and The Numerical Jordan Form (Singapore: World Scientific, 2024). Dr. Petkov is a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.