Valery D. Yurkevich
Valery D. Yurkevich received the Dipl.Eng. (1974), Ph.D. (1986) and D.Sc. (1997) from Novosibirsk State Technical University, where he is currently a professor in the Automation Department and teaches courses on control principles for undergraduates, and courses on control methods under conditions of incomplete information at the graduate level. His research interests are in nonlinear control systems, digital control systems, flight control, distributed parameter control systems, robotics, switching controllers for power converters, singular perturbations in control. He partakes in collaborative international research programs and was a visiting professor at the Silesian Technical University (Poland), University of Twente (The Netherlands), Concordia University (Canada), University of Ulsan (Korea), Harbin University of Science and Technology (China), and National University of Singapore. He has produced about 200 papers and international conference presentations and holds four patents. He is member of IEEE Control Systems Society and has wide-ranging experience as a reviewer of international journals and conferences.