Alexis Kudryashov, Professor, Dr. of Sc., is the Head of the Laboratory at the Institute of Geosphere Dynamics Russian Academy of Sciences and Moscow Polytechnical University. In 1983, he graduated from Moscow State Lomonosov University Physics department with a Ph.D. (1988), and received a Dr. of Science from the same University in 2003. Main fields of interest – adaptive optics, imaging systems, laser interferometry, and laser resonators. He is an SPIE community champion, and a fellow and senior member of SPIE. In 2015, Alexis Kudryashov was honored with the Grant of Russian Science Foundation for outstanding Russian Scientists. For 21 years, he chaired the SPIE Conference on Laser Resonators (Part of Photonics West). Alexis Kudryashov is a founder of a chain of the International Workshops on Adaptive Optics for Industry and Medicine.