Maksim Belyaev received his B.Sc. (2010) and M.Sc (2012) degrees in Informatics and Computer Engineering from the Petrozavodsk State University (PetrSU, Russia). He also received M.Sc (2012) degree in Technical Physics from the Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT, Finland). Since 2014 he has acted as engineer and research scientist at PetrSU on various topics: electronic devices based on metal-insulator transition, oscillator neural network, machine learning and internet of things. He is an author and co-author of more than 30 research publications.