Dr. Alexander Semenov is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Florida. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research and teaching interests include network science, social media analytics, design of efficient algorithms, analysis of large datasets, optimization, and machine learning. Dr. Semenov has co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications and has been a recipient of multiple research grants. Dr. Semenov is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Combinatorial Optimization and IET Blockchain journal.