Prof. VICTOR LEHENKYI




Curriculum Vitae


1. Date of birth: December 7, 1958;

2. Place of birth: Kiev, Ukraine;

3. Education:
1992 - M.Sc. degree in Mechanics & Mathematics (Kiev National University); Thesis "Group-theoretical methods in solving of flight control problems".
1981 - M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (Kiev Airforce Military Institute); Thesis "The shock wave control system of hypersonic aircraft".

4. Academic degrees:
1996 - Sc.D. in Military Cybernetics & System Analysis (Kiev Airforce Military Institute). Thesis: "Symmetry analysis of controlled systems and its application in problems of flight dynamics".
1987 - Ph.D. in Control & Dynamics (Kiev Airforce Military Institute); Thesis: "The supernumerary reduction of aerospace transportation system to horizontal flight".

5. Professional Summary:
- 20 years experience in Control/Flight dynamics applied research as Project Engineer and Principal Investigator, including optimization of branched trajectories for superheavy multi-stage aircrafts and all of their components; terminal control for pilotless vehicle; robust control for civil transport aircrafts; took part in 11 Research Projects in collaboration and financial support with ANTONOV DESING OFFICE, NPO "Molniya" and many others;
- Principal theoretic results in: Symmetry analysis of Control systems, Integrability of underdetermined systems (in particular, nonlinear control systems and nonholonomic mechanical systems); parametric analysis of dynamical systems; Group-theoretic algorithm for solving the optimal synthesis problems;
- Extensive experience in qualitative analysis of dynamical systems; developed a FORTRAN code for mission analysis; skilled in REDUCE, MATLAB/SIMULINK, VISUAL FORTRAN.

6. Work history:
2011 (January-April) - Visiting Researcher (University of Saarland, Germany);
2003 (June) - Visiting Researcher (Dresden Technical University, Germany);
2002 (January-February) - Visiting Researcher (Institut des Hautes 'Etudes Scientifigues (IH'ES), France);
2000 (September-December) - Visiting Researcher (Dresden Technical University, Germany);
1999 (August) - Visiting Researcher (Tallinn Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia);

* 2001-till now Leading Researcher (Institute of Mathematical Machines & Systems Problems NAS of Ukraine);
* 2003 -2007 Senior Researcher (Institute of Mathematics NAS of Ukraine);
* 2000-2001 Senior Researcher (Institute of Modeling Problems in Energetic NAS of Ukraine);
* 1999-2000 Senior Researcher (MNII IPM "RITM" National Technical University of Ukraine (KPI));
* 1996-1999 Chief Researcher (Kiev Airforce Military Institute);
* 1993-1996 Sc.D. studies (Kiev Airforce Military Institute);
* 1986-1993 Senior Researcher (Kiev Airforce Military Institute);
* 1983-1986 postdoctoral research training (Kiev Airforce Military Institute);
* 1982-1983 Senior Engineer (Special Airforce Metrological Laboratory);
* 1981-1982 Instructor (Airforce Mechanics' School);

7. Activities: Author of 41 papers and 27 conference presentations, 1 patent;

8. Rewards: 1988 - Medal named N.A. Pilyugin (Federation of Cosmonaut's of Soviet Union);

9. Current research interests:
Differential-geometric and theoretic-group methods for Nonlinear Control systems and their applications;

10. Personal: Ukrainian citizen.

11. Address: Institute of Mathematics of Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences
3, Tereshchenkivska st. 01601, Kyiv-4, Ukraine (for regular mail);
E-mail:Victor@imath.kiev.ua; phone: (380 44) 234-63-22 (office), (380 44) 241-05-16 (home).