**About the Editor**

#### **Joanna Olbry´s**

Joanna Olbrys is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Bialystok ´ University of Technology. She obtained her Ph.D. in technical sciences from the Systems Research Institute of Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. She was the head of two research projects financially supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2009–2011) and the National Science Centre in Poland (2017–2020). In 2008–2012, she was the Vice-Dean for Scientific Research at the Faculty of Computer Science of the Bialystok University of Technology. She has published in various international journals. She is a member of the KES International, the Society for the Study of Emerging Markets and the Polish Mathematical Society. Since 2019, she has worked as a scientific expert and an external reviewer for the assessment of research projects submitted to the National Science Centre in Poland. Her scientific interests cover financial econometrics, computing in social science, empirical finance, time series analysis, operations research in finance, portfolio theory, asset pricing, microstructure of capital markets and information theory applications in economics and finance.
