1971 – the qualification “electrical engineer”, the specialty «Automatics and telemechanics», Kharkiv Institute of Radioelectronics (KhIRE);

1979 – Candidate of Technical Sciences (Ph.D.), Kharkiv Institute of Radioelectronics, the scientific specialty 05.13.01 – technical cybernetics and information theory;

1984 – Senior Researcher, the scientific specialty 05.13.01 – technical cybernetics and information theory;

1990 – Doctor of Technical Sciences (Dr.Sci.), Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute, the scientific specialty 05.13.01 – control in technical systems;

1994 – Professor in the specialty 05.13.03 – control in technical systems.

Educational activity

Lecture courses: Neural networks’ methods of Computational Intelligence; Artificial Neural Networks: architectures, learning and application; Data Mining; Deep Learning of Neural Networks.

Researcher activity

Scientific interests: Hybrid systems of Computational Intelligence, Data Stream Mining, Big Data, Deep Learning, Evolving Systems.

He is Scientific Head at the Control Systems Research Laboratory (CSRL) where he founded the scientific school in «Hybrid systems of Computational Intelligence for data analysis, data processing and control».

He has been a scientific head of a number of state-funded research projects (which were conducted in CSRL) since 1985, i.e. based on decrees by the USSR State Committee on Science and Technology and the USSR Ministry of Education within the target complex scientific and technical programs; based on orders by the Ministry of Education of Ukraine according to results of the projects’ competitive selection. A number of doctoral and candidate dissertation works have been conducted within complex state-funded research projects by PhD students and doctoral student from the AI Department and by CSRL research staff.

He is a member of the Specialized Scientific Council D 64.052.01 in Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics.

As for now, he has prepared 9 Doctors of Technical Sciences and 30 Candidates of Technical Sciences (Ph.D.’s).

A research team of the scientific school has received a number of individual grants:

4 DAAD scholarships (Germany); 7 internship grants (Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Czech Republic); 3 scholarships «Soros postgraduates» – “International Soros Science and Education Program”; 8 scholarships by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for young researchers and PhD students; 2 awards by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for talented young researchers; a scholarship by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for talented young researchers; a diploma by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine; an award of the President of Ukraine for young researchers; multiple individual grants for participation in international conferences in Germany, Slovakia, Turkey, Great Britain, Switzerland, Estonia, Poland, Lithuania etc.

A member of editorial boards in International Journal of Infonomics; International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems; scientific and technical journals «Bionics of intelligence» and «ACS and automation devices»; the journal «Radio Electronics, Computer Science, Control»; the interdepartmental collection of reports «Adaptive automatic control systems».

International activity / participation in international projects

IEEE Senior Member, member of ITHEA International Scientific Society

A reviewer in international journals “Information Science” (Scopus, Web of Science, SNIP=3.242), “Soft Computing” (Scopus, SNIP=1.429), “Applied Soft Computing” (Scopus, Web of Science, SNIP=2.729), “Neural Computing & Application Journal” (Scopus, SNIP=1.021), “Int. Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge – based Systems” (Scopus, SNIP= 0.829), “IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks” (Scopus, SNIP= 1.876).

A member of Program Committees at some international conferences (in New Zealand, France, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria etc.), including International conference «Modelling and Simulations of Business Systems», Internationales Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium “Synergies between Information Processing and Automation”, International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems etc.

Honorary Chairperson of the Program Committee at the International Scientific Conference «IEEE International Conference on Data Stream Mining & Processing» (2016, 2018).

Social activities

Member of scientific council of Computer Science faculty, Member of scientific and technical council at ��������.

State Awards

The Diploma by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (2010);

• a breastplate «An excellent worker in Education of Ukraine» (2004) by the Ministry of Education of Ukraine;
• a breastplate «For scientific achievements» (2005) by the Ministry of Education of Ukraine;
• a nominal scholarship and a diploma by Kharkiv Regional State Administration named after Proskura G.F. in the area of technical sciences for outstanding scientists (2008);
• a nominal scholarship and a diploma by Kharkiv Regional State Administration in the nomination “Informatics and computer science” – a scholarship named after Sviridov V.V. for outstanding scientists (2014);
• a breastplate «Vasyl Sukhomlinsky» by the Ministry of Education of Ukraine (2014);
• a sign «USSR Inventor» (1983);
• a badge of honor «For merit» due to the 40th anniversary of Kh��������;
• a diploma of the winner in the competition «Kh��������: the best professionals» in the nomination «Lecturer of the school year 2000/2001»;
• a diploma of the winner in the competition «Kh��������: the best professionals» in the nomination;
• «Lecturer of professionally oriented subjects» (2012);
• a diploma of KhRSA for development of science and training of highly qualified personnel (2019);
• a diploma of regional contest “Higher school of Kharkiv region – the best names” in nomination “Researcher” (2019).
• 2024 – Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine.

He won several international grants after a competitive selection:

• 2 DAAD scholarships (Germany) “Studienaufenthalt auslaendischer Wissenschaftler” (1996, 1999);
• a number of individual grants for participation in scientific international conferences in abroad.

Publications and patents

He has currently published over 550 scientific works, including: 30 monographs and book chapters, including those published by Springer, Nova Science Publishers Inc., John Wiley (New York, USA) etc., 6 tutorials.

3 patents, and 36 inventor’s certificates

1998 – graduated from �������� with a degree in Computer Design Systems;

1998 – Post-graduate student of the Department of Technical Cybernetics of ��������;

2001 – Candidate of Technical Sciences, specialty 05.13.03 – control systems and processes;

2001 – Senior Researcher, CSRL ��������;

2006 – doctoral candidate of the Department of Artificial Intelligence of ��������;

2009 – Doctor of Technical Sciences, specialty 05.13.23 – systems and means of artificial intelligence;

2009 – Leading Researcher, CSRL ��������;

2010 – Chief Researcher, CSRL ��������.

Researcher activity

S. Popov is developing new evolutionary methods for structural and parametric tuning of artificial neural and neuro-fuzzy networks with specialized architectures within the framework of a scientific direction based on his doctoral dissertation. He was the head and executor of a number of state budget and commercial research projects. Supervises post-graduate students studies.

Research interests:

• neuro- and neuro-fuzzy networks;
• machine learning;
• data mining.

International activity / participation in international projects

2016 – Study visit to the European Commission Joint Research Centre at Ispra, Italy.

Social activities

1. Chairman of Kharkiv Regional Council of Young Scientists and Specialists.
2. First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Young Scientists at the Ministry of Education and Science;
3. Member of the Attestation Board of the Ministry of Education and Science;
4. Member of the Competition Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science;
5. Member of the working group for the competitive selection of experts to the sections of the scientific and expert councils of the Ministry of Education and Science.

State Awards

2008 – Winner of the contest “The Best Young Scientist of Kharkiv Region”.

2010 – Prize of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to the most talented young scientists in the field of fundamental and applied research and scientific and technical developments.

2011 – Winner of the Kharkov city competition “Young Man of the Year” in the nomination “Scientific Activity”.

2013 – Appreciation from the Prime Minister of Ukraine.

2015 – Appreciation from the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine.

Publications and patents

Has over 100 publications, including patents.

2002 – Engineer in Computer Systems, ��������, specialty – Intelligent Integrated Systems.

2005 – Ph.D., specialty – 05.13.23 Systems and Means of Artificial Intelligence.

2005 – Senior Researcher, specialty – 05.13.23 Systems and Means of Artificial Intelligence.

2012 – Dr.Sc., specialty – 05.13.23 Systems and Means of Artificial Intelligence.

2014 – Professor in Cybersecurity.

2004-2005 – Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence Department, �������� (part time).

2004-2005 – Assistant Professor of Security of Information Technology Department, �������� (part time).

2007-2013– Associate Professor of Security of Information Technology Department, �������� (part time).

2013 -2017 –Professor of Security of Information Technology Department, �������� (part time).

2005-2006 – Research Scientist  of CSRL, ��������.

2006-2010 – Senior Research Scientist  of CSRL, ��������.

2010-2014 – Lead Research Scientist  of CSRL, ��������.

Since 2014 – Principal Research Scientist of CSRL, ��������.

Education activity

Сourses (2002-2017):

• Data Mining;
• Machine learning;
• Control Theory;
• Optimization theory;
• Mathematical methods of modeling and process optimization;
• Number, group, ring and field theory;
• Applied cryptology.

Researcher activity

Researcher in many R&D projects.

Scientific interests:

hybrid systems of computational intelligence, wavelet neuro-fuzzy networks, dynamical data mining, data stream mining, data science, deep learning, fuzzy clustering, classification, prediction and fault detection. Biomedical data mining, machine learning in IoT.

International activity / participation in international projects

2013 – Grant for internship at Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover, L3S Science Center, Federal Republic of Germany.

Reviewer in international journal “Information Science” (Impact factor=4.832)

Social activities

Member of the Specialized Scientific Council D64.052.01 in ��������.

State Awards

2012 – the Award of a Parliament of Ukraine.

2013 – grant of Kharkiv Regional State Administration in the science field “Informatics and Computer Science”.

2015 – Award of a President of Ukraine.

2015 – Parliament of Ukraine Grant.

Publications and patents

More than 170 publications (among 4 monographs in Ukraine, 4 book chapters, 1  tutorial), 2 patents for utility model.

In 2007 he graduated from Kh�������� specialty “Intelligence Decisions Support Systems”.

Ph.D. – 2011. Thesis defended in Kh��������.

Scientific Researcher of CSRL of Kh�������� since 2012.

Senior Scientific Researcher of CSRL of Kh�������� since 2013.

Researcher activity

As part of the state budget R & D was involved in research projects: “Design of information processing methods under uncertainty based on self-learning and soft computing”, “Evolving hybrid systems of computational intelligence with adjustable structure for data mining”.

Research interests: computational intelligence, hybrid systems, deep learning and self-learning, spiking neural networks.

International activity / participation in international projects

Was awarded a grant for participating in 16th Zittau Fuzzy Colloquium – Summer School.

Publications and patents

Has over 30 publications, including 1 international monograph.

In 2013 she graduated from Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics (Kh��������), speciality – Artificial Intelligence Systems.

In 2017 she defended Ph.D. thesis in Kh��������.

Junior Scientific Researcher in CSRL since 2017.

Researcher activity

As part of the state budget R&D she was involved in research projects: “Neuro-fuzzy systems of current clustering and classification of data sequences under conditions of their distortion with missing and abnormal observations” and “Dynamic data mining of fuzzy information sequences under conditions of significant uncertainty based on hybrid systems of computational intelligence”. Research interests: data mining, machine learning, neural networks, neuro-fuzzy systems.

Publications and patents

She has currently published over 8 scientific works.