Department of Information Technology

Faculty of Information and Applied Technologies

Petro Nikoliuk

Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor


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In 1972, he entered the Faculty of Physics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. He graduated in 1977. In the same year, he was sent to work at Vinnytsia Polytechnic Institute, where he worked first as a VAT engineer and then as a physics teacher at the Department of Physics In November 1978, he entered the targeted postgraduate program at the Institute of Metallophysics of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, which he successfully completed in 1981. In the same year, he was assigned to Vinnytsia Polytechnic Institute as an assistant at the Department of Physics. In 1985, I successfully defended my dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in the specialty of solid state physics. In 1989, I was awarded the academic title of associate professor. From 1996 to 1999, I was a doctoral student at the Faculty of Physics of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. In 2001, at the Institute of Metallophysics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, he successfully defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. In 2002, he was elected Professor of the Department of Physics at Vinnytsia State Technical University (formerly Vinnytsia Polytechnic Institute). In the same year, on the basis of a proposal from the rector of Vinnytsia State Agrarian University, he moved to Vinnytsia State Agrarian University as a professor of the Department of Higher Mathematics and Physics. On September 7, 2004, based on the proposal of the Director of Vinnytsia Branch of Ternopil State Economic University, he joined this branch. In 2006, he received a professor’s certificate.

On September 01, 2007, he was hired under a contract on a competitive basis to the position of Head of the Department of Fundamental General Education Disciplines of the Vinnytsia Institute of Trade and Economics of the Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics (at the invitation of the Director of the Vinnytsia Branch of the KNTEU).

In October 2008, at the invitation of the Rector of the Vinnytsia Cooperative Institute, he joined this university as Head of the Department of Information Technology.

In 2016, he joined Donetsk National University.

Member of the jury of the All-Ukrainian competition of student research papers in 2020 (Khmelnytskyi).

Officially invited as a member of the jury of the International Competition of Student Research Papers (Odesa).

Teaches courses: “System Modeling”, “Computational Mathematics”, “Object-Oriented Software Design Technologies”, “Algorithm Theory”, “Game Theory”.

Main areas of research:

    • graph theory;
    • system modeling;
    • synthesis of new compounds and alloys;
    • discrete mathematics;
    • programming (java programming language),

Head of a scientific club for preparing students for participation in international and national competitions of student research papers.

Author of the textbook “JAVA.Theory and Practice”.

Author of 100 scientific papers.

I carry out scientific and technical cooperation with the Zhytomyr Armored Plant to create new types of high-strength alloys.

I take part in national and international competitions of student research papers as a jury member.

I provide scientific guidance to students who have been winning prizes in All-Ukrainian and International competitions of student research papers for three years.