Boris Novikov is currently a professor in the Department of Informatics at National Research University Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He graduated from Leningrad University’s School of Mathematics and Mechanics. He has worked for Saint Petersburg University for a number of years and moved to his current position in January, 2019. His research interests are in a broad area of information management and include several aspects of design, development, and tuning of databases, applications, and database management systems. He also has interests in distributed scalable systems for stream processing and analytics.