Short BIO

Vagan Terziyan has got Engineer-Mathematician Degree on Applied Mathematics in 1981 from Kharkov National University of Radioelectronics (KNURE), then in 1985 became Candidate of Technical Sciences (Dr. Tech. equivalent) and in 1993 the Doctor of Technical Sciences (Dr. Habil Tech. equivalent) at the Software Engineering Department. He is acting as Professor on Software Engineering since 1994 and as the Head of the Artificial Intelligence Department since 1997. His research and teaching profile is design of distributed, intelligent and secure Web applications, systems and services, which are: (a) targeted to the needs of industry; (b) able to automatically discover, compose and integrate heterogeneous components; (c) able to manage heterogeneous data sources; and (d) utilising for that emerging Knowledge-, Agent-, Machine-Learning-, Mobile-, Context-Aware- and Semantic Web- based technologies and tools. He is Scientific Head of the Metaintelligence Laboratory, the Data Mining and Telemedicine research groups in KNURE, the Head of Co-operation and Exchange Program with Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyvaskyla (Finland) and similar Program with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the Netherlands), member of two scientific boards and two editorial boards. He was acting on various research and/or teaching positions in the University of Jyvaskyla (MIT and CS&IS Departments, ITRI, Agora Center) during 1996 – 2006 due to various grants, contracts and projects. He has been also a visiting lecturer in Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, ITIN (France) and Jyvaskyla Polytechnic. He is also acting as Professor in Distributed Systems and Docent (AI and Knowledge Management) in MIT Department, University of Jyvaskyla, where recently he is lecturing two courses, supervising several doctoral and master students and also working in Agora Center as project leader at the SmartResource TEKES Project and the Head of Industrial Ontologies Group. He is member of IFIP WG 12.5 (“Artificial Intelligence Applications”). He has essential experience in lecturing, supervising M.Sc. thesis work and doctoral students, managing research teams and projects (also European) as well as excellent communication skills. He has published more than 100 refereed scientific publications, and more than 70% of them in internationally recognised magazines and conferences.

Updated: 2 October 2006