Dr. Maria Lapina is an Associate Professor of the Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics at North Caucasus Federal University, Stavropol, Russia. She has more than 20 years of teaching experience. She received a PhD in mathematics from Stavropol State University in 2005. She defended her master's thesis in Information Security at the North Caucasus Federal University with honors in 2015. Her research interests include Data Science, Machine Learning, Big Data, Cybersecurity, Cryptography, Trusted Artificial Intelligence, Edu-Tech, Teacher Education, & Higher Ed. She has published in peer-reviewed journals indexed in Scopus and WoS. She has more than 80 research papers. She is an active editorial board member for Springer Nature, IGI Global. She is an active reviewer of MDPI publishing journals. She is the organizer, co-chair and editor of the proceedings of international scientific events: AISMA-2021, 2022, 2023, 2024: International Workshop on Advanced in Information Security Management and Applications, DMAI-2021: International Workshop on Data Mining and Al. She has participated in international internships at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) in 2018, the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) in 2018, the Technical University of Dresden (Germany) in 2019 and the 2nd ASEF Innovation Laboratory of Higher Education (ASEFInnoLab) at Fudan University in Shanghai, China in 2020.