Prof. Andrey Ronzhin is Director of St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPС RAS). He is a specialist in the field of human-machine interaction research, artificial intelligence and robotics. Under his leadership the technological foundations for the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning methods in the digital means of natural language analysis and control of interoperable socio-cyber-physical and robotic systems were developed. Mathematical and algorithmic models, methods and prototypes of proactive automation tools for information, physical and energy interaction of heterogeneous robotic and cyber-physical complexes have been developed. He is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Informatics and automation", member of the editorial board of the journals "Analysis and data processing systems", "Computational Technologies". He is member of the Scientific Boards of Departments of the Russian academy of sciences "ScientificFoundations of Information Technologies and Automation", “Robotics and Mechatronics”, “Theory and control processes”, “Mechanical engineering”. He is a member of the Academy of Navigation and Motion Control. He is Co-Chair of International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics (ICR).