Sergiy Shtovba

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of Information Technologies

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1993, electronics engineer-designer-technologist. Graduated with honors from Vinnytsia Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Design and Technology of Electronic Computers.

1997, Candidate of Technical Sciences, specializing in Mathematical Modeling in Scientific Research;

2001, “Complex Systems Summer School”, Santa Fe Institute and Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 4 weeks;

2002, Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Control Systems;

2005, ICCL Summer School “Logic-Based Knowledge Representation”, Technical University of Dresden, Germany, 2 weeks;

2006, ICCL Summer School “Knowledge Structures”, Technical University of Dresden, Germany, 2 weeks;

2010, Doctor of Technical Sciences in Information Technology;

2011, Professor of the Department of Computer Control Systems;

2015, internship under the Erasmus Mundus program, Backis project, University of Montpellier and the Research Institute of Agronomy and Environment (Irstea Montpellier), France, 1 month;

2015, ICCL Summer School “Reasoning”, Technical University of Dresden, Germany, 2 weeks;

Since 2020, Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University. Career at Vinnytsia National Technical University: Professor (2007), Doctoral student (2003), Associate Professor (2001), Senior Lecturer (1998), Deputy Dean (1997), Junior Researcher (1996), PhD student (1993).

Teaches disciplines: Methods of artificial intelligence, Fuzzy sets and systems, Methodology and organization of scientific research, Data analysis.

Main directions of scientific research:

application of intelligent technologies (fuzzy logic, genetic and ant algorithms, swarm intelligence methods) to solve applied problems in the following areas:

• • assessment and ensuring the reliability and quality of human-machine systems;
  • technical, medical and educational diagnostics;
  • expert systems and decision support systems;
  • optimization on graphs;
  • detection of patterns in experimental data;
  • scientometrics.

Scientific adviser of the following state budget and contractual topics:

• • 2017-2019, Identification of hidden dependencies in online social networks based on fuzzy logic and computational linguistics methods;
  • 2015, Information technology of multi-criteria synthesis of fuzzy knowledge bases;
  • 2013, Forecasting of natural gas consumption by individual subscribers.
  • 2011-2013, Identification of multifactor dependencies based on hybrid fuzzy models.

Professional activity:

• • Member of the Special Council D 05.052.01 for the defense of doctoral dissertations in the specialty 05.13.06 “Information Technology” (since 2010);
  • member of the sectoral expert council “Information Technologies” of NAQA (2019-2020);
  • member of the editorial boards of the scientific journals “Bulletin of Vinnytsia Polytechnic Institute” (since 2010), “Neuro-fuzzy modeling technologies in economics” (since 2012) and “Exponenta Pro: Mathematics in Applications” (2002 – 2003);
  • host of the Fuzzy Logic Toolbox section on www.matlab.ru and www.matlab.exponenta.ru (2003 – 2008), SoftLine.

Awards:

• • “Excellence in Education of Ukraine” sign, 2017;
  • Grant of the President of Ukraine for Doctors of Sciences under the age of 45, 2015;
  • Laureate of the Scholarship of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for Young Scientists (2003 – 2005 and 1995 – 1997);
  • Diplomas of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine for the excellent organization of the second round of the All-Ukrainian Student Olympiad in the specialty “Control and Automation Systems” (2002, 2001, 2000).

Author of more than 170 publications, including: 3 monographs, 7 textbooks, more than 130 articles, 23 articles in the Scopus database.