Dmitry V. Kozyrev received his Ph.D. degree in Physics and Mathematics in 2013. Since 2007, he has been working at the Department of Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University). Since 2013, he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Probability and Informatics (RUDN University) and a Senior Research Fellow at the V.A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. He is a member of the reviewer board of several scientific journals, as well as proceedings editor and member of organizing / program committee of several international conferences. His current research activities include Stochastic Modeling, Reliability Assessment and Performance analysis, Sensitivity analysis, Modeling and Simulation of repairable systems, Applied Probability. He has authored and co-authored over 80 published papers.