Petia Koprinkova-Hristova received her MSc degree in Biotechnics from Sofia technical University in 1989. Since then she was working at different institutes of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences where she received her PhD on Automatics in 2001. Since 2019 she is professor at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies. Her main research interests are in the area of neural networks and neuro-fuzzy approaches and their applications in various areas. Her resent work is focused on reinforcement learning and its brain-inspired modelling. She is the leader of interdisciplinary project including a team of Institute of Neurobiology at BAS whose aim was to develop a brain inspired model of visual information processing and decision making, part of which is the AIAI 2020 paper she will present.