Raina Robeva was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Virginia and is a Professor of Mathematics and a Karl E. Peace Fellow in Mathematics at Randolph-Macon College in the United States. Her current research is in the broad fields of mathematical and systems biology. In addition to editing this second edition, she has authored and edited several books, including A Bridge to Higher Mathematics (CRC Press, 2024), Algebraic and Combinatorial Computational Biology (Academic Press, 2019), and Algebraic and Discrete Mathematical Methods for Modern Biology (Academic Press, 2015). She has chaired the Advisory Board of the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), led the Committee on Special Interest Groups of the Mathematical Association of America, and served for over a decade as the founding Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Systems Biology.

• Modeling gene regulation using Boolean network modelsBistability in bacterial genetic networks: A comparison of differential equations and Boolean network modelsInferring the topology of gene regulatory networks: An algebraic approach to reverse engineeringStochastic Boolean NetworksGlobal dynamics emerging from local interactions: Agent-based modeling for the life sciencesAgent-based models and optimal control in biology: A discrete approachNeuronal networks: A discrete modelPredicting population growth: Modeling with projection matricesIdentifying CpG islands: Sliding window and hidden Markov model approachesPhylogenetic tree reconstruction: Geometric approachesTropical linear algebra and its applications to phylogenomics

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