Aleksandra Popovska-Mitrovikj was born in 1979 in Skopje. She received bachelor and master degrees in Informatics in 2003 and 2009 at the Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Skopje. In 2014, she defended her PhD thesis in the field of coding theory and cryptography at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering. In 2004 she received an award from the Ss. Cyril and Methodius  University in Skopje for graduation with the highest average grade at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in the academic year 2002/03.

She started working at the Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in 2002, as a demonstrator, and in 2006 as a junior assistant. In 2011, she continued working as an assistant at the Faculty of Computer Sciences and Engineering.  In the period of 2015 – 2019 she has been working as an assistant professor, 2019 – 2024 as an associate professor, and since May 2024, as a professor at Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, "Ss.Cyril and Methodius" University in Skopje.

She was a participant/coordinator in several international and national scientific projects. She is an author of many scientific papers published in journals and proceedings of international conferences. Her research interest are in the field of coding theory, cryptography, information theory, blockchain technology.

Мартин Динев, дипломиран инженер по информатички науки и компјутерско инженерство, насока Компјутерски науки

Мартин Динев е роден на 19.06.2001 година во Валандово, Северна Македонија. Основно образование завршил во родното место Пирава, а средно образование во Струмица во СОУ Никола Карев. Во 2019 се запишува на додипломски студии на Факултетот за информатички науки и компјутерско инженерство – Скопје, на насоката Компјутерски Науки. Дипломирал во Октомври 2023 со просечна оценка 9.59, со дипломска на тема „ Современи методи и алатки за изучување и примена на мултимедијални технологии“, под менторство на проф. д-р. Миле Јованов.
Во учебната 2023/2024 се запишува на магистерски студии на ФИНКИ, насока Едукација со ИКТ.

Мартин Динев во учебната 2019/2020 држел часови на деца за подготовки за натпревари по информатика во СЕМОС Едукација. Во учебната 2022/2023 држел подготвителна настава за меѓународни олимпијади по информатика на талентирани ученици избрани според резултатите од државните натпревари по информатика за средношколци.

Во учебните 2022/23, 2023/24 и 2024/25 држел лабораториски вежби и аудиториски вежби на Факултетот за информатички науки и компјутерско инженерство во Скопје по предметите Структурно Програмирање; Мултимедијални Технологии; Алгоритми и Податочни Структури; Веројатност и Статистика; Вештачка Интелигенција; Дизајн на Алгоритми и Е-учење.

Во Декември 2022 учествувал на втората „Global Conference for Giftedness and Creativity“, каде во соработка со кандидати од топ 100 рангирани универзитети или со исклучителен успех на меѓународни олимпијади ја фасцилитираа мисијата на „Mawhiba“ за создавање на глобална платформа за таленти.
Во Октомври 2023 и Октомври 2024 учествувал во имплементирање на IEEEXtreme глобалниот предизвик на локално ниво. Во Октомври 2023 учествувал во научниот комитет на 30тата Балканска Олимпијада по Информатика одржана во Марибор, Словенија. Во Ноември 2024 учествувал на ACM ICPC SEERC.

Biljana Tojtovska is born in 1980 in Skopje. She has finished her primary and secondary education in Skopje. She was part of the Macedonian olympic team at the International mathematics olympiads for high school students. She took part in many Balkan and International olympiads, where she was awarded an honorable mention and 2 bronze medals. In 1999 she started her studies in pure mathematics at the Faculty of mathematics and natural sciences in Skopje. She graduated in 2004 with a 9.88 grade average. As a DAAD scholarship holder she continued with her Master studies in stochastics and financial mathematics at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in Germany. In 2007, she completed her studies with 1.0 grade average, writing the thesis "Martingale decompositions with application in finance", having Prof. Dr. Ralf Korn as a supervisor. For her academic achievements she was recognized as the best student at the Department of mathematics. During her stay in Germany she has worked at the ITWM Fraunhofer Institut on the project "Asset liability managment". She took part in different seminars, including the "Equity derivatives" workshop, organized by Credit Suisse in Frankfurt. After her return in Macedonia she worked in the Ministry of Finance, in the Middle office of the Department of public debt of Macedonia. Since the beginning of 2009, she is working as a teaching assistant at the Institute of informatics in Skopje. She was part of the following lectures – linear algebra, discrete mathematics, calculus, probability and statistics, information theory, operation research, numerical mathematics. Her research interests are in the field of probability and statistics, stochastic differential equations and stochastic modeling with applications in different fields ( biology, medicine, finance, informatics ). She is a PhD student and works with Prof. Dr. Svetlana Jankovic, as a supervisor, on the topic of stability of  on models of stochastic neural networks. She has published several papers and took part in many international seminars, conferences and workshops. She also took in the organization of mathematics competitions in Macedonia.

Hristina Mihajloska is born in 1985 in Ohrid, Macedonia. She graduated from the Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics, Department of Informatics in Skopje in 2008. In 2011 got her Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree from the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering (FINKI) in Skopje, on the TEMPUS program in Software Engineering. Her master thesis is in the field of Symmetric Cryptography, titled “Analysis and construction of optimal S-boxes for block ciphers with quasigroups" supervised by Danilo Gligoroski, a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. In March 2017, she got her Doctoral Degree (Ph.D.) from the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, with a doctoral dissertation in the field of Cryptography, titled “Lightweight Cryptography from the Theory of Quasigroups Perspective” supervised by prof. Gligoroski.
During her studies, she was continually awarded for her achievements.

After graduating she was employed as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics, Department of Informatics in Skopje. Since 2011, she is working as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering in Skopje. Her work as a teaching assistant includes preparation and teaching of auditory and laboratory exercises for courses such as programming, algorithms and data structures, operating systems, software quality, and testing, cryptography, and information security.

She is participating in a number of international and domestic scientific research projects. As a part of her scientific research activities, she has participated in numerous scientific conferences, workshops, and summer schools. She is an author and co-author of many scientific research papers. She got a number of scientific visits at the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. She took a part in the world competition for authenticated encryption CAESAR, as one of the authors of the π-Cipher candidate. Currently, her research is focused on authenticated encryption, the design of lightweight ciphers, and provable security in the field of symmetric cryptography.

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. 

Bojana Koteska graduated from the Faculty of Information Sciences and Computer Engineering (FINKI) in Skopje in 2011, majoring in software engineering, with an average grade of 9.87, as the best student in her generation. She is the recipient of the "Golden Coin" award from the University "Sts. Cyril and Methodius" and the "Golden Ring" from the Organization of Engineers of Macedonia. In 2012, she defended her master's thesis and obtained the scientific title of Master of Information Sciences in the field of software engineering. She defended her doctoral dissertation in 2018 under the mentorship of Prof. Anastas Mishev at the Faculty of Information Sciences and Computer Engineering. In 2010, she was elected as a demonstrator at the Institute of Informatics at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Skopje and in 2011 at the Faculty of Information Sciences and Computer Engineering. In 2017, she was elected as an assistant doctoral student, in 2018, she was promoted to assistant professor, and in 2023, she was elected as an associate professor at the Faculty of Information Sciences and Computer Engineering. She has taught several undergraduate and master courses, including Algorithms and Data Structures, Software Quality and Testing, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Introduction to Computer Science, Software Testing Process Management, High-Performance Computing Software Testing, Databases, Information Systems Management, and Software Engineering.

She has participated in 15 international and 20 domestic scientific research projects as a researcher, including three as a coordinator. She has published over 80 scientific papers in journals and domestic and international conferences as an author and co-author. She is a co-author of two books. Her areas of scientific interest are software quality, biomedical signal processing, biosensors, and machine learning.

Роден е 1955 година во Скопје. Дипломирал на Електротехничкиот факултет во Скопје во 1980 година, а магистрирал на Електротехничкиот факултет во Белград во 1988 година. Докторирал на универзитетот “Св. Кирил и Методиј” во Скопје во 1989 година. На Електротехничкиот факултет во Скопје бил вработен во период од 1986 година до 1998 година во звањата: асистент (1986), доцент (1990) и вонреден професор (1995). На Институтот за компјутерска техника и информатика при Електротехничкиот факултет (кој во меѓувреме го промени називот во Факултет за електротехника и информациски технологии) е повторно вработен од 2007 година во звањето редовен професор. Во периодот 01.01.1992 – 01.06.1993 престојувал на Универзитетот на Калифорнија, Беркли. Од 1998 година е вработен на Универзитетот на Калифонија Сан Диего, прво во звањето вонреден истражувач, а од 2000 година во научното звање истражувач (еквивалентно на редовен професор). Редовен член на МАНУ е од 2007 година. Автор е на повеќе од 100 научни статии публикувани во повеќе од 20 различни списанија, од кои 22 статии се публикувани во IEEE списанија. Неговите трудови, според Science Citation Index, до 2009 година се цитирани повеќе од 4000 пати. Бил едитор на 3 книги, едитор во списанието IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (во периодите 2002 – 2004 и 2006 – 2008), а од 2007 година е едитор во списанието Journal of the Franklin Institute. Автор е на 6 патенти одобрени во EU и USA. Бил раководител на повеќе проекти, а во 2009 година е раководител (ко-раководител) на 4 проекти финансирани од Р Македонија (фондот на МАНУ), Европска унија (FP6), САД (National Science Foundation) и Кина (Honk Kong Research Grant Council). Избран е за fellow на IEEE во 2006 година. Области на научен интерес му се: нелинеарни електрични кола и системи, динамички системи, компјутерски мрежи, комплексни мрежи, кодирање, криптографија, биоинформатика и пресметувачка биологија.