Dr. Aleksandar Risteski received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications at the Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia in 1996, 2000 and 2004, respectively. He is currently a professor and a vice-dean for research and international cooperation at the same university, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies. In 2001, 2003 and 2004, he had several internships at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, where he worked towards his Ph.D. degree. His research interests are in the fields of optical communications, secure communications and coding theory. He is an author of more than 50 journal and conference papers. Dr. Risteski was a project leader/participant in more than 30 research and industryrelated projects, co-chairman of three international conferences and co-director of one NATO advanced research workshop.