Prof. Sergey Rykovanov graduated from the Physics Faculty of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2006. He then moved to Germany to pursue a Ph.D. in Physics in Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching. During his Ph.D. time he was working on numerical laser plasma physics and parallel particle-in-cell codes development. He obtained his Ph.D. from Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 2009 and remained there for another two years as a post-doc gaining further experience in numerical plasma physics, high-performance computing and novel architectures. In 2012, Prof. Rykovanov became a post-doctoral researcher in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in USA. In 2014 he won a prestigious research grant from the Helmholtz Association and was until 2018 a Group Leader in the Helmholtz Institute Jena. Since July 2018 he is an Associate Professor in Skoltech working in High Performance Computing, Distributed Deep Learning and Computational Complex Systems.