Dr. Yuri Yatsenko has published seven books and over 200 papers. He earned his MS and PhD from Kiev State University and a Doctor of Science from the USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow). During his career, he has been a professor in five different countries and taught mathematics, statistics, economics, information systems, and computer sciences in four languages. For five years, he held senior positions in data analytics and operations research at international companies in USA and Canada. He joined Houston Baptist University in 2002 and is currently engaged in intensive collaboration with several European and Asian universities. His areas of expertise include modeling and optimization of economic, industrial, and environmental processes, technological change, innovations, operations research, and computational methods.