作者: Antanas Zilinskas

Anatoly Zhigljavsky has received his BSc, MSc and Ph D degrees in mathematics and statistics at Faculty of Mathematics, St.Petersburg State University. He became professor of statistics at the St.Petersburg State University in 1989. Since 1997 he is a professor, Chair in Statistics at Cardiff University.  Anatoly Zhigljavsky is the author or co-author of 11 monographs on the topics of time series analysis, stochastic global optimization, optimal experimental design and dynamical systems; he is the editor/co-editor of 9 books on various topics and the author of more than 150 research papers in refereed journals. He has organized several major conferences on time series analysis, experimental design and global optimization. In 2019, he has received a prestigious Constantine Caratheodory award by the International Society for Global Optimization for his contribution to stochastic optimization. Antanas Žilinskas is member of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences and professor of informatics at the Institute of Data Science and Digital Technologies of Vilnius university. His research interests include global and multi-objective optimization, visualization of multidimensional data, and optimal engineering design. He is author or co-author of several well-known monographs in optimization. His scientific achievements in global optimization are marked by the Caratheodory prize of the International Society of Global Optimization (2017). Prof. Žilinskas is a member of editorial boards of numerous international scientific journals. He also paid a lot of attention to teaching students and organizing studies of informatics, has prepared several textbooks on optimization and informatics.