Prof. Dr. Irina Yatskiv (Jackiva) is Professor of Engineering Faculty, Chair of the Research & PhD Council, Director of MSc Program in Transport and Logistics, Transport and Telecommunication Institute (TSI). Founder and leading researcher in the Laboratory of Applied Systems, more than 12 years was Vice-rector for Research and Development in TSI. Has participated in more than 20 EU and Latvian research projects and more than 14 national transportation studies, was scientific coordinator in 8 of them. She has great experience in coordinating different kind of projects in frame of Horizon 2020, FP, INTERREG, BSR programs, was coordinator of Horizon 2020 project “Enhancing excellence and innovation capacity in sustainable transport interchanges” (ALLIANCE), was national representative and management committee member in COST Actions CA16222 (WISE-ACT), TU1306 (CYBERPARKS), TU1004, TU0903, TU0804 and TU0801. Fields of research are data analysis, data mining, statistical analysis, mathematical modelling and simulation with application in different fields (transportation sphere, business, economics, networks, logistics and others). Authors more than 150 publications, incl. chapters in the books “Modelling Public Transport Passenger Flows in the Era of Intelligent Transport Systems” (Springer, 2016), "3D City Models and urban information: Current issues and perspectives” (edpsciences, 2014) etc. Guest redactor of Volumes of Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems etc.