Autor: Alexander Kostyaev

Prof. Andrey Ronzhin is the director of St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS). He is a specialist in the field of human–machine interaction research, artificial intelligence, and robotics. Under his leadership, the technological foundations for the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning methods in the digital means of natural language analysis and control of interoperable socio-cyber-physical and robotic systems were developed. Mathematical and algorithmic models, methods, and prototypes of proactive automation tools for information, physical and energy interaction of heterogeneous robotic and cyber-physical complexes have been developed. He is the deputy editor-in-chief of the journal Informatics and Automation and a member of the editorial board of the journals Analysis and Data Processing Systems and Computational Technologies. He is a member of the Academy of Navigation and Motion Control. He is a co-chair of International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics (ICR). Academician Alexander Kostyaev is a chief scientist of the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Academician Kostyaev was elected an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2013 and is a distinguished scientist in the field of economics and planning of the agro-industrial complex, economic, and social problems of the agro-industrial economy of the North. He is an author of over 320 scientific works, including 16 monographs in the field of economics and management of the agro-industrial complex, methodology and theory of regional agro-economic research, sustainable development of rural areas.