Grigory S. Voronkov received his Specialist degree in Mobile Radio Systems from Ufa State Aviation Technical University (USATU), Ufa, Russia, in 2007, and in 2017 obtained his Candidate of Science degree (PhD equivalent) in Engineering Sciences within the specialty "Telecommunication Systems, Networks, and Devices" from USATU. He worked as an Engineer at LLC "TehKom" (2007–2011) and then as an Assistant Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the Telecommunication Systems Department, USATU (2009–2018). In September 2018, he was promoted to Associate Professor at the Telecommunication Systems Department, USATU, and in July 2020, he moved to the same department and was promoted to Senior Researcher. His research topics mainly include: integrated photonics, digital signal processing, machine learning, microwave circuitry, radio-over-fiber systems, orbital angular momentum multiplexing, antenna design.