Prof. Dima Krioukov graduated from Saint Petersburg State University with Diploma in Physics in 1993. In 1998 he received his Ph.D. in Physics from Old Dominion University, and moved to the networking industry as a network architect with Dimension Enterprizes. Upon their acquisition by Nortel Networks in 2000, he accepted a research scientist position at Nortel. In 2004 he moved back to academia as a Senior Research Scientist at the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). In 2014 he moved to Northeastern University as an Associate Professor (Professor since 2024) at the Departments of Physics, Mathematics, and Electrical&Computer Engineering, and a core member of the Network Science Institute, where he is the Director of the DK-Lab. DK-Lab research deals mostly with theory and fundamental aspects of network science. Research topics of particular interest to the lab are latent network geometry, maximum-entropy ensembles of random graphs and higher-order structures, random geometric graphs, causal sets, navigation in networks, and fundamental aspects of network dynamics.