Board of school:


Michael Lobachev
Odessa National Polytechnic University
(Odessa, Ukraine)

Director
lobachev@intstartupschool.com

Professor Lobachev is the director of International R&D and Start-Up School. He is a specialist in the areas of project management and start-up industry. Has extensive experience working with Asian, European and North American markets, as the general director of a group of companies as well as in the area of start-ups. Dr. Lobachev has obtained his doctoral degree at Odessa National Polytechnic University, studied business at Kyiv-Mohyla Business School (KMBS) and worked as the IT deputy rector at I.I. Mechnikov National University. He has a list of over 50 publications, which include two computer science textbooks and was awarded by the Ministry of Education for his work in fields of academia and education. Areas of research interests include various aspects of specialized computer systems as well as issues of reliability in computer systems.

Svetlana Antoshchuk
Odessa National Polytechnic University
(Odessa, Ukraine)

ICS Dean
asgics@intstartupschool.com

Svitlana Antoshchuk – Dr. Habil in Computer Science, is the Head of the Information Systems Dept. Her main research interests include Information Computing Systems for Education and Intelligent Information Systems Development. She published more than 150 scientific articles and monographs and delivered more than 50 presentations at international conferences. As a Director of ONPU Institute of Computer Systems, she will provide the project team with all necessary scientific, practical and administrative support, as well as will be closely involved into all their on-going activities.

Vladimir Brovkov
Berlin University of Technology and
Economics (Berlin, Germany)

vladimir.brovkov@htw-berlin.de

Dr.-Ing. (TU Dresden), Berlin University of Technology and Economics (HTW Berlin) professor.
He has published over 70 scientific papers, including 4 textbooks for Information Technologies and Computer Engineering, 8 copyright certificates of the USSR and US patents.
Specializing in the field of measurement technology, embedded systems, wireless data transfer technologies.

Thorsten Schöler
Augsburg University of Applied
Sciences (Augsburg, Germany)

thorsten.schoeler@hs-augsburg.de

Professor for computer science at the faculty of computer science of Augsburg University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) in Augsburg, Germany. He is coordinator of the Distributed Systems Group (DSG) at AUAS. His main research interests are cyber-physical systems, intelligent software agents, data science, and mobile computing. He has perennial industry experience in research and development of distributed and knowledge-based software systems, data stream management systems and mobile solutions, both in technical and in economic applications. Honorary doctor of Odessa National Polytechnic University (ONPU).

Christian Herta
University of Applied Science HTW
Berlin (Berlin, Germany)

christian.herta@htw-berlin.de

Dr. Christian Herta received his diploma and PhD in physics from the universities of Würzburg and Lübeck. He worked several years in industrial research and development for different companies in the field of bioinformatics, information retrieval and artificial intelligence. Since 2010 he is professor for applied computer science at the university of applied science HTW Berlin and responsible for the specialization “data science”.

Volker Herwig
University for Applied Sciences
(Erfurt, Germany)

volker.herwig@fh-erfurt.de

Volker Herwig studied Business Systems at the Georg-August-University in Goettingen. After his Ph.D. at the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena he worked for Siemens Communications in Munich/Germany and Siemens Energy in Orlando/USA as IT Strategist. He was part of the RosettaNet Architecture Advisory Council from 2004-2007. Since 2008 he is a professor for Business Systems at the University for Applied Sciences in Erfurt/Germany. He founded pepperbill, a company that developed and distributed software for an iOS based cash register, which he sold in 2015. Honorary doctor of ONPU.

Vyacheslav Kharchenko
National Aerospace University
(Kharkiv, Ukraine)

V_S_Kharchenko@ukr.net

Prof. Dr. Vyacheslav Kharchenko is the Head of the Computer Systems and Networks Department, National Aerospace University (Ukraine). He is also the director of Centre for Infrastructure-Oriented Safety Research and Analysis.
National coordinator of the projects (TEMPUS-MASTAC, SAFEGUARD, GREENCO, SEREIN).
Invited lecturer at universities of Germany, Slovakia, United Kingdom and USA. Has been awarded with the Cosmonautics Federation (2002) as well as Department of Education and Science of Ukraine medals for successes in education (2005) and science (2009). Dr. Kharchenko is also a GC of International Conference “Dependable Systems, Services and Technologies” and has supervised over 40 successful doctoral dissertations. He is an author of over 300 papers, standards and books (amongst other countries published in Ukraine, Russia, USA and Germany). Editor-in-Chief of the “Radio Electronics and Computer Systems” Scientific Journal.
Research interests include: dependable and green computing, methods and techniques for regulation, assessment and assurance of safety and security of SW and FPGA-based systems.

Anatoliy Sachenko
(Ternopil, Ukraine)
as@tneu.edu.ua


Anatoliy Sachenko, Professor and Head, Department for Information Computer Systems and Control,Ternopil National Economic University. Doctor of Technical Sciences in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Areas of Research Interest: Computation Intelligence for Homeland Security and Safety, Data Mining, Internet of Things, Wireless Sensor Networks, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, High Performance Computing and Grids, Education in Computer Science and Engineering, IT Project Management. Author of numerous articles, proceedings, books, and book chapters. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, IEEE I&M/CIS Chapter Chair.
Dr. Sachenko is IEEE IDAACS General Chairman, Editor-in-Chief of International Journal for Computing, Honored Inventor of Ukraine. He also was a supervisor of 20 supported PhD and DrSc Thesis’s.