Dr. Alexey Kashevnik is a senior researcher in the Computer Aided Integrated Systems Laboratory at the St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences – SPIIRAS (2003) and associate professor in the International Laboratory on Intelligent Technologies for Socio-Cyberphysical Systems, ITMO University, St. Petersburg (from 2014). He is associate editor of the International Journal of Embedded and Real-Time Communication Systems (IJERTCS), advisory board member of the Open Innovation Association FRUCT, and a program committee member of several international conferences. He received his PhD in computer science at SPIIRAS in 2008. His research interests include ADAS, intelligent transportation systems, human–computer interaction, driver assistants, knowledge management, profiling, ontologies, and smart spaces. He has been involved in projects sponsored by Nokia, ENPI, and Russian agencies in the areas of smart space, ontology management, etc. He has published more than 200 research papers in reviewed international journals, proceedings of international conferences, and books.