Andrei Valerievich Kopylov (b. 1970) received the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Control Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, in 1997. In 1997, he joined the Department of Automation and Remote Control, Tula State University, as an Assistant Professor and became an Associate Professor in 2005. Currently, he is an Associate Professor with the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Tula State University. Since 2022, he is also a leading researcher in the Laboratory of Cognitive Technologies and Simulating Systems, Tula State University. He worked as visiting researcher at the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences and National Taipei University of Technology. His scientific interests are signal and image analysis, data mining, ma-chine learning. Prof. Kopylov was the principal investigator of several grants of the Russian Fund for Basic Research, including international. He has published more than 170 scientific papers in refereed journals, handbooks, and conference proceedings in the areas of machine learning, pattern recognition and computer vision. Prof. Kopylov is a member of The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).