Mikhail Khachumov is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematical Modeling and Artificial Intelligence, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia. He is also a Candidate in physical and mathematical Sciences, a Senior Researcher at the Federal Research Center "Computer Science and Control" of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FRC CSC RAS), and the Ailamazyan Program Systems Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (PSI RAS). He is an active member of the Russian Association of Artificial Intelligence. He earned a Master’s degree and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in 2009 and 2012, respectively. His research interests include UAVs, artificial intelligence, artificial neural networks, intelligent control systems, knowledge representation models, behavior planning, path planning, pattern recognition, and data mining.