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Mykhailo Zghurovskyi | |
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Михайло Згуровський | |
Rector of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute | |
Assumed office April 1992 | |
Preceded by | Petro Talanchuk |
Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine | |
In office November 1994 – January 1999 | |
President | Leonid Kuchma |
Prime Minister | |
Preceded by | Petro Talanchuk |
Succeeded by | Valentyn Zaichuk |
Personal details | |
Born | Skala-Podilska, Ternopil Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) | 30 January 1950
Alma mater | Kyiv Polytechnic Institute |
Mykhailo Zakharovych Zghurovskyi [a] ( Ukrainian: Михайло Захарович Згуровський), Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine (in office 1994-1999). Today he is a rector of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
He is also a Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Presidium member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (On 8 April 2022 announced withdrawal from the foreign Academy members) [1], corresponding Member of the Division of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences in the Austrian Academy of Sciences. [1] He is also a renowned scientist and specialist in the field of cybernetics, systems analysis, big data mining and decision theory. He is a Scientific Supervisor of the Institute for Applied System Analysis (part of both Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), former Ukrainian education minister.
He generalized the main provisions of the theory of system analysis, laid the foundations of system mathematics, proposed a new approach to the theory of extremal problems for nonlinear operator, differential-operator equations and inclusions, variational inequalities. The most famous applications of his scientific research results relate to the field of mathematical geophysics, geoinformatics, socio-economic problems of modern society.
Mykhailo Zghurovskyi was born on 30 January 1950 in the city of Skala-Podilska in Ukraine's Ternopil Oblast. In 1975, he graduated from the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, faculty of control systems, with a specialty in "Automated control systems". His PhD thesis was titled "Optimal discrete control of one class of distributed processes of unsteady heat transfer" (1979). His Doctoral thesis was titled "Computer-aided design and optimal control of non-stationary processes and fields under data uncertainty" (1984).
From March 1975 to August 1986 he was a engineer, senior engineer, senior researcher, and professor of the Department of Technical Cybernetics at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. From May 1986 to August 1987 he was the Deputy Head of the Research Department of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of the Ukrainian SSR.
From August 1987 to March 1988 he was again a Professor of the Department of Technical Cybernetics at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. From March 1988 to April 1992 he was Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. Since April 1992 he has been Rector of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. [2]
He was Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine from November 1994 to January 1999. [3]
From 1996 to 2015 he was Director (since 2015 - the Scientific Supervisor) of the Institute of Applied Systems Analysis of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (based on Kyiv Polytechnic Institute).
In 2006 Zghurovskyi was the founder of the operation in Ukraine of non-governmental organization ( WDS-Ukraine), which is a full member of the World Data System (WDS) of the International Science Council (ISC). The Center (WDS-Ukraine) specializes in interdisciplinary researches of complex systems of various nature.
The scientific school of Zghurovskyi prepared and trained fourteen doctors and more than 50 candidates of sciences. He is the author of 52 inventions, the author and co-author of more than 820 scientific papers, 43 monographs and textbooks published in Germany, USA, Switzerland, Poland, Japan, China, Ukraine and other countries of the world. [4]
Since March 1995 - Deputy Head of the Commission on Higher Education Reform in Ukraine. [5]
Since August 1995 - Member of the State Commission on the Science Reorganization field. [6]
From October 1995 to January 1999 - Chairman of the State Accreditation Commission of Ukraine.
From February 1997 to January 1999 - Member of the Council on Language Policy under the President of Ukraine. [7]
From 18 January 2018 to 9 July 2019 - member (from 23 January 2018 - Chairman) of the Supervisory Board of the State Concern "Ukroboronprom". [8] [9] [10]
From 2023 - Head of the Ukrainian Peace Council [11]
National Representative of the Scientific Committee of the World Data System - WDS (Paris, France).
Member of the Board of the Earth Data Network for Education and Scientific Exchange - EDNES (Strasbourg, France).
National Representative to the International Science Council - ISC (Paris, France).
National Representative of the Committee on Data for Science and Technology - CODATA (Paris, France).
Member of the UNESCO Governing Committee on the Education for Sustainable Development Program.
President of the Network of the Black Sea Universities Network - BSUN (Constance, Romania) 2008-2010.