Danila Parygin has a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences and the title of Associate Professor. He is a Leading Researcher and Head of the Department of Digital Technologies for Urban Studies, Architecture and Civil Engineering, and is an Associate Professor at the Department of CAD, Volgograd State Technical University. He has guided 20+ M.Techs and more than a hundred B.E./B.Tech projects. For over 15 years he has been studying issues of urban development, urban data analysis, and the use of ICT to support decision-making in the management of complex geographically distributed systems. He is an author of over 200 scientific publications, including three books and more than 60 research papers indexed by Scopus and Web of Science. He is also an editor and reviewer of a number of reputed international conferences published by IEEE and Springer. He is Head of R&D Projects of the Urban Computing Laboratory on transport, real estate, infrastructure, ecology, tourism, entertainment, etc. and supervises the development of mobile and web applications for residents, businesses and city administrations. He is the leader and executor of projects supported by the Russian Science Foundation, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Innovation Support Fund.