Mark Shifrin received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel. He served as a postdoctoral researcher in Ben-Gurion University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Mark has been involved in several industrial and academic-funded projects, including the Horizon 2020 European program. His interests include research of Markov decision processes, analysis and control of communication systems, and unsupervised and supervised learning.