Jonatan Lerga received a Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia, in 2011. He is currently an Vice-Dean and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia, where he is also the Head of the Information Processing Laboratory. In addition, he is the Head of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity at the University of Rijeka, Croatia. He published more than 70 scientific papers with 35 papers in WoS journals. His main research interests include digital signal and image processing, artificial intelligence applications, information theory, and coding. Prof. Lerga has received numerous awards for his work: the Annual Award of the Croatian Academy of Engineering for his scientific achievements in 2012, the Annual Award of the City of Rijeka in 2015, and the Annual Award of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County in 2018. He also received several recognitions from the Foundation of the University of Rijeka in 2008, 2010, and 2018.