DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED TECHNOLOGY

Faculty

Education

Doktor Nauk in Engineering Sciences (Sc.D. equivalent; Systems Engineering)
Higher Academic Qualifications Commission, Moscow, USSR
(see explanation at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doktor_nauk)

Kandidat Nauk in Engineering Sciences (Ph.D. equivalent; Electrical Engineering)
Air Defense Graduate Radio Engineering College, Kharkov, USSR
(see explanation at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandidat_nauk)

MS (Mathematics)
Kharkov State University, Kharkov, USSR

BS (Electrical Engineering)
Air Defense Graduate Radio Engineering College, Kharkov, USSR

Professional Designation

Senior Research Scientist in Military Cybernetics, Operations Research, Systems Analysis, and Defense Systems Simulation. Designated by the USSR Higher Academic Qualifications Commission.
(This is a prerequisite for being a primary academic supervisor to doctoral students and holding tenured appointments in the rank of Associate Professor in research institutions in the ex-USSR.)

Teaching

• Courses taught: Information Technology, Game Development, and Business curricula (quantitative analysis).

Research

Research Areas: Modeling & Simulation; Artificial Intelligence; Operations Research; Software Engineering.

Current Research Interests: multi-agent systems modeling and simulation in general; more specifically:

• advancing digital game technology by bridging the gap between Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence;
• modeling competitive network service industries in business strategy games; and
• optimal decision making with multiple criteria in multi-agent systems.

Professional Membership

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Society for Computer Simulation International
• International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision-Making
• Object Management Group, Inc.
• Digital Games Research Association