Igor Zakharov graduated from Mogilev State A. Kuleshov University, Belarus, in 1996 with a degree in Physics and Mathematics and earned a Ph.D. degree in Systems Analysis, Control, and Information Processing from the United Institute of Informatics Problems, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, in 2006. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist at GeoAnalytics team, C-CORE, Ottawa, Canada, conducting applied research in remote sensing, satellite design and AI/ML technologies for a range of applications. He is the author and co-author of over 100 journal and conference publications relevant to image analysis, remote sensing, systems and control engineering, and modeling of physical processes.