Elena Dubrova received the Diploma Engineer degree in Computer Science from Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1993, and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Victoria, B.C., Canada, in 1998. Since 2008 she has been a professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. She has over 100 publications and 15 granted patents. Her work has been awarded prestigious prices such as IBM faculty partnership award for outstanding contributions to IBM research and development. She is a world's top 2% scientist according to the Stanford University ranking from 2020. Her research interests include hardware security, lightweight cryptography, logic synthesis, and multiple-valued logic.