Alexander Gorban Governor-at-Large (2024) University of Leicester Topics of Research: (bio)chemical kinetics, theory and applications of artificial neural networks, applications of AI in health service and forensic psychology, multiagent AI systems and neuron-astrocyte networks

Alexander N. Gorban is currently a Professor, Chair in Applied Mathematics and Director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics and Modelling at the College of Science and Engineering, University of Leicester (since 2004), PhD in differential equations and mathematical physics (1980) and ScDr in biophysics (1990). He worked for the Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, and ETH Zürich, was a visiting professor and research scholar at Clay Mathematics Institute (Cambridge, MA), Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (Bures-sur-Yvette, France), Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (New York, NY), and Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Cambridge, UK).

His research has been continuously supported by grants from various foundations and industrial contracts. He has more than 30 years of research in neural networks and machine learning, published more than 200 research papers and 18 books.

He is a member of INNS, SIAM, LMS, a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), a member of the Board of Governors of INNS (International Neural Network Society), a member of the Board of Governors of RNNS (Russian Neural Network Society), and a member of the Scientific Council of Russian Society of Artificial Intelligence.