Milen Yakimov received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Sofia University, Bulgaria in 1996 and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001. His research interest lie in the areas of Noncommutative Algebra, Representation Theory, and Cluster Algebras, and their relations to Triangulated Categories, Poisson Geometry, and Integrable Systems. He is a Sloan Research Fellow (2005) and American Mathematical Society Fellow (2018). His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation since 2004.