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Igor Kovalenko

Doctor of Sci., Professor

 

Personal Data

Born on 16 March 1935 in Kyiv (Kiev).

Married (1957). Two daughters (b. 1959, 1966).

Citizen of Ukraine.

e-mail: kovigo@yandex.ru

University Studies

Graduated from T.Shevchenko Kyiv State University (1957). Diploma in Mathematics. Postgraduate studies at the Institute of Mathematics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (1957-1960) under supervision of B.V.Gnedenko, with consults of A.N.Kolmogorov.

Scientific Titles & Degrees

  • Doctor of Sciences in Engineering (Moscow, 1964);

  • Doctor of Sciences in Physics & Mathematics (Moscow, 1970);

  • Professor (Moscow, 1965);

  • Full Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine (1978);

  • Professor of the University of North London (1997).

Awards

State Prizes of Ukraine (1978, 2002); State Prize of USSR (1979); V.M.Glushkov (1985) and V.S.Mikhalevich (1999) Prizes of the Nat. Acad. Scis Ukraine. A Honoured Worker of Science &  Technology of Ukraine (2000).

Grants Been Awarded: from International Science Foundation (1994); from Dozor Fund (1998); from DAAD Germany (1998; 2000).

Permanent Position

Head of the Mathematical Reliability Dpt of the V.M.Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of the Nat. Acad. Scis Ukraine, Kyiv (since July, 1971).

Visiting Positions

  • Assistant Professor in Federal Institute of Technologies (Zürich, several visits in 1992-1997);

  • Research Fellow in STORM Research Centre, University of North London, January 1995 to August 1998);

  • Visiting Professor in Technical University Berlin (a year, 1998-1999);

  • the same in University Trier (2000-2001).

Teaching Activity

Professor and Head in the Probability & Statistics Chair of the Moscow Institute of Electronics Engineering (1968-1971); Professor of T.Shevchenko Kyiv State University (1971-1984) and of Kyiv Supreme Radiotechnical College (1984-1987) Professor/Dean of the Applied Mathematics Faculty of Kyiv Polytechnic (1987-1992).

 

Supervision of PhD of more man 30 postgraduate students in former SU and of Doctoral dissertations of 5 postdoctoral research fellows in Kyiv and Moscow. I also supervised a few research seminars in Moscow and Kyiv, among them the Seminar on queueing theory in M.Lomonosov Moscow State University in the 60s (jointly with B.V.Gnedenko, Yu.K.Belyaev and A.D.Soloviev).

Publications

More than 100 papers in journals having been reviewed, and 20 books.

Invited lectures and/or Participation in Program Commitees of at least 10 scientific conferences; among them, of 10th Applied Probability Conference (Ulm, 1999) and Conference on Reliability & Maintenance (MMR2000, Bordeaux).

Editorial Work

I am a member of Editorial Boards of the Journals Cybernetics & Systems Analysis (Kyiv),  Reports of the National Acad Scis Ukraine and Artificial Intelligence (Donetsk). For long terms I was a member of Editorial Boards the Journals: Engineering Cybernetics (Moscow), Discrete Mathematics (Moscow). At least 20 years I edited reviews in the Russian Mathematical Reviews; I have published about 3000 reviews in this journal. I also edited and translated several books.

Current Scientific Interests:

  • Probability Combinatorics

  • Queueing Theory

  • Mathematical Reliability Theory

  • Simulation Methods

  • System Analysis

  • Stochastic Geometry.