Valeri Mladenov received his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Sofia (TU Sofia), Bulgaria in 1993. In 2019 he defended a "Doctor of Sciences" thesis at the same institution. In 2004 he becomes the Head of the department Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering. In 2011 he become a full professor. Since June 2011 he was a Dean of Faculty of Automatics, since Dec. 2011 he has been a Vice-Rector of TU Sofia, and since 2022 is again Head of the Department Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering. Currently, he is the Head of the Neurocomputing laboratory of TU-Sofia. In 2014 he has been a Deputy Minister of Education and Science in Bulgaria. Prof. Mladenov's research interests are in the field of electrical engineering, electronics, artificial intelligence, and neural networks. He has more than 350 scientific papers in professional journals and conferences. He is a co-author of twenty books and manuals for students. He had received many research grants and also with his team he participated and participate in many national and international projects. As a member of several editorial boards, Prof. Mladenov serves as an editor in chief, associate editor, and reviewer for a number of professional journals and conferences. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, chair of the Bulgarian IEEE joint CAS&SSCS chapter, a member of the IEEE Circuit and Systems Technical Committee (TC) on CNN-MAC. He is also a Senior Member of the International Neural Networks Society (INNS), and many others.