Galia Nedeltcheva is a Chief Assistant Professor in ICT at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy, along with two master's degrees—one in Information and Management Technologies and another in Quality Management. She completed postdoctoral specializations in Italy, Germany, and the United States, focusing on software engineering and engineering management. Her research interests span digital transformation, cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), data science and AI, software engineering, management information systems, and Smart City/Smart Manufacturing.