Georgina Mirceva is born in 1984 year in Sveti Nikole, R. Macedonia. She obtained the degree of Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, majoring in Computer techniques, informatics and automatics, in 2007 from the Faculty of electrical engineering and information technologies at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Skopje, R. Macedonia. She obtained the degree of Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, majoring in Computer techniques and informatics, in 2009 from the same faculty. In 2014 she obtained a PhD degree from the Faculty of computer science and engineering at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Skopje, R. Macedonia.

Since 2007, she has worked at the Faculty of electrical engineering and information technologies in Skopje as a demonstrator. In 2009, she is employed as a teaching and research assistant at the faculty. From 2011, she is a teaching and research assistant at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering in Skopje. Georgina lectures classes at the courses: Databases, Databases 1, Artificial intelligence, Data mining, Multimedia systems, Menagement of information systems, Machine learning, Geographic information systems, Object oriented analysis and design, System analysis and design and Preparation of a project and technical documentation.

As author or coauthor, she has published more than 30 research papers in international journals and proceedings of international conferences. Her research interest is focused on bioinformatics, computational biology, artificial intelligence, data mining, multimedia, machine learning and databases.

PhD Andreja Naumoski graduated in 2006 and defended his master thesis in the field of computer science in 2008. In July 2012 he obtained the PhD title by successfully defending the doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering in Skopje. From 2006 he is actively involved in several international projects at the Faculty as research assistant and from 2009 he worked at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies in Skopje. In 2011 he is involved at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering in Skopje as teaching and research assistant. In January 2014 he is elected as Assistant Professor. Teaching responsibilities include several subjects. He is an author and co-author of more than fifty scientific papers in international conferences and prestigious foreign periodicals and international journals with impact factor. As a part of his scientific research he participated in 3 international projects funded by the Tempus and FP6 program and bilateral projects. Areas of research interest includes machine learning and data mining of ecological data, modelling and prediction of dynamic processes of ecosystems, fuzzy logic and fuzzy machine learning and analysis of time series.

Bojan Ilijoski was born in 1987 in Skopje. He studied in the elementary school “Mirce Acev” in Skopje and in the gymnasium “Nikola Karev”, in the mathematics department, also in Skopje. During his elementary and secondary education he participated in regional and state competitions in mathematics and informatics. In 2006 he enrolled in the Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics in the institute of informatics, in Skopje. He graduated in 2010 and acquired the professional title Bachelor of Engineering – software engineering. During his studies, he participated in many competitions in programming and construction and managing software projects. In September, 2010 he enrolled in postgraduate studies in the Institute of informatics, Faculty of Natural Science and Informatics, the department of computer science. Since 2009, he has worked as demonstrator in the Institute of Informatics. His current teaching work includes courses such as Programming Fundamentals, Object Oriented and Visual Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms, Internet Technologies, Human-Computer Interaction. The areas of his scientific-research interest are Intelligent Systems, Data Mining, Data Bases, Algorithms, Grid computing, High-performance computing.

Nevena Ackovska is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at “Sts. Cyril and Methodius” University in Skopje, Macedonia. She holds B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Informatics and Automation at Electrical Engineering Faculty (2000) and M. Sc. in Bioinformatics (2003) and a Ph.D. in the field of Bioinformatics (2008) from Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics  at “Sts. Cyril and Methodius University” in Skopje, Macedonia. In 1995 she moved in USA and continued her education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. 

Currently she teaches 7 graduate and 3 postgraduate subjets at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering. Her research interest is in two seemingly distinct areas: bioinformatics and intelligent systems. She is interested in beings, both living and artificial, and the ways to develop such beings. Ackovska participaed in 6 scientific projects. She was involved in projects about using biological knowledge in informatics, and informatics support for biological processes, such as ENGNet Copernicus (2000). As a part of the TEMPUS-Project CD-JEP-16160 she has visited the Computer Science Department of theUniversity of Dortmund (2004). During the Ph.D research she has attended several intensive courses in the project Centar of Excellence for Applications of Mathematics, held by the Bulgarian Academy of Science (2004), and several research activities in the Laboratory for Cell signaling in the Medical University of Charleston (2006), research stay in the Laboratory for Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Biocybernetisc in South Carolina State University (2006, 2007, 2008), research stay in the Laboratory of NeuroSciences in the South Carolina State University (2008).  

She holds many awards at national and regional competitions in mathematics and biology. Dr. Nevena Ackovska is author of four books (in Macedonian) and more than 40 research articles, mainly in the field of Intelligent Systems. She was organizer of 5 international conferences and 2 workshops, and is editor of one conference proceedings. Dr. Ackovska is IEEE member, and member of Computer Society of Macedonia. She is also one of the researchers for the Centar for Digitization of National Heritage of Macedonia. She has worked as a Secretary International for Save the Children – Macedonia (1996-1997). 

Natasha Ilievska was born in 1978. She enrolled the University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Institute for Informatics in 1996/97. She graduated in 2001 with grade average 9.94 and was awarded for best graduated student at the Institute for Informatics. She enrolled the Master studies at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Institute for Mathematics in 2002/2003. After passing all exams with an average grade 10.00, in 2009 she obtained M.Sc. degree with defense of the thesis entitled "Error-Detecting Codes and Application of Quasigroups in their Design". In 2015 she received her Ph.D. degree at the University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering. Her doctoral dissertation is in the field of coding theory.

In 2002 she was elected as young research and teaching assistant at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Institute for Informatics, while in 2009 in assistant at the same Faculty. She was assistant at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering - FCSE from 2011 to 2015. In 2015 she was elected as assistant professor at the same Faculty. She has held exercises in many courses: discrete mathematics 1, discrete mathematics 2, probability and statistics, discrete structures 1, discrete structures 2, discrete structures 3, probability, probability theory, algebra, algebraic discrete structures, sets and logic, linear algebra,  vectors and matrices, information theory, basics of the information theory, basics of programing, data bases, mathematical methods for informaticians, mathematical statistics, functions of several variables, mathematical analyses, computer programing, computer practicum II, computer practicum III. As assistant professor she holds lectures in discrete mathematics 1, discrete mathematics 2 and probability and statistics to the students of the FCSE. She has written several scripts available for students in an electronic form through the appropriate web pages. She has participated on many conferences, congresses, workshops, schools and courses. She was participant in several research projects and she has published 15 scientific papers. 

(October 2011) 

Andrea Kulakov finished the secondary school in 1990, at age of 16, as he managed twice to take two school years during one year (7^th and 8^th grade in primary school and then 3^rd and 4^th year in high school). After that, he enrolled at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Skopje, Macedonia at the Computer Science Department and in 1995 graduated with the highest average grade (9.91 out of 10.00) in the generation 1990-95.

In 1995 he started his postgraduate studies in Cognitive Science at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia, Bulgaria, in a small international group of students with classes in English. He finished these studies with an excellent average grade (5.71 out of 6.00). In July 1998 he defended his MSc thesis “Vygovorotsky – An Anticipative and Analogy-making Actor” with an excellent grade (5.5), in front of an international defense committee with 5 members (not including the mentor). In 1999 his MSc diploma was recognized as an equivalent diploma at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Skopje.

During his 9 months military service in 1999, he was also a demonstrator at the Military Academy for the course “Informatics”. After that he worked for six months in an international software company Mak-System, during which period he was for training in Paris, France for 6 weeks.

In the period April 2000 till September 2011, Andrea Kulakov was employed at the Institute of Computer Science and Engineering at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (later Faculty of Electrical Engineering and IT) in Skopje, first as an assistant, and then since 2007 as an Assistant Professor. He had taught several subjects in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Databases in the undergraduate and graduate studies.

In June 2005, he won a Graduate Student Research Grant for researches leading to PhD defense, from the Computational Intelligence Society of the largest society of engineers IEEE. (http://ieee-cis.org/edu/research/ little below, in the section for 2005).

In December 2006 he defended his PhD thesis titled “Data Management in Wireless Sensor Networks” at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and IT in  Skopje.

He was a researcher and principal investigator of several national and international projects, financed by the Ministry of Education and Science of Macedonia, from the EU TEMPUS program and from the EU FP6 program.

In 2008 he founded an advanced technology Company for Research and Development NI TEKNA – Intelligent Technologies (www.ni-tekna.com), dealing with development of advanced solutions where it is necessary to apply the techniques of Artificial Intelligence.

In March 2011 he was one of the founders of the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering in Skopje. In August 2011 he was elected as a Head of the Institute of Intelligent Systems at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering.

He is responsible for several courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level from the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Robotics and Sensing. He has published more than 60 scientific papers at international conferences, in international journals, as well as a book chapter. His research is focused in the fields of Robotics, Business Intelligence, Image and Sound Processing and other subfields of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence. Besides his native Macedonian, he speaks fluently English, Serbian and Bulgarian, while he uses also German, French, Russian and Slovenian.