Dr. Alina Yanko is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Technologies and Systems at the National University "Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic", Ukraine. She completed her PhD studies in Computer Systems and Components and has been awarded the President of Ukraine Award for Young Scientists (2020) and the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament of Ukraine) Award (2024). Dr. Yanko serves as a Principal Investigator for national projects developing AI-driven ground robotic platforms and acts as an official scientific expert for the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the National Research Foundation of Ukraine. She is a recognized innovator with over 20 national patents in fault-tolerant computing architectures. Her research interests include 5G NR cross-layer performance evaluation, Massive MIMO optimization, self-organizing networks, reinforcement learning applications, and cybersecurity in critical information infrastructure.