Anna A. Okunkova, cand. of engineering science (Ph.D.), a senior researcher in the Department of High-Efficiency Processing Technologies of the Moscow State University of Technology STANKIN, completed her higher education in 2005 at the Nizhniy Novgorod State Technical University as a chartered engineer in the design of technical and technological complexes. In 2009, she was awarded a Ph.D. in engineering science, specializing in automation and control of technological processes and productions. In 2015, she was honored as a Laureate of the Government of the Russian Federation in Science and Engineering for Young Scientists (N10904) for her work on mobile laser complexes for the repair of specialized machines. She has developed 26 patents and published more than 90 international scientific articles in journals indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus (with H-indexes of 25 and 26, respectively).