Dmitriy Shutin received a master’s degree in computer science from Dnipropetrovsk State University, Ukraine, in 2000, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria, in 2006. From 2001 to 2006 and from 2006 to 2009, he was a Teaching Assistant and an Assistant Professor with the Signal Processing and Speech Communication Laboratory, Graz University of Technology. In 2009, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, where he worked as a Research Associate until 2011. In 2011, he joined the Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center, where he is currently a Leader of the Swarm Exploration Group. His research interests include machine learning for signal processing, distributed information and signal processing, and swarm exploration. Dr. Shutin was a recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS). In 2009, he was awarded the Erwin Schroedinger Research Fellowship. From 2012 to 2014, he acted as a selected Advisor of German Air Navigation Service Provider within the Navigational System Panel of ICAO.