Yuriy Rashkevych
Professor, Dr.Sc., Vice-Minister for Higher Education and European Integration at Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Topic: "Data Science: Nowadays and Future (Welcome Speech)"
In 1977 he graduated with honor from Lviv Polytechnical Institute. In 1986 he defended the Ph.D. and in 1997 - the Doctor of Science thesis (Dr. habil. sc. ing.). In 2000 he received an academic title of Professor. From September 1977 to November 1992 - Assistant, Associate Professor at Automated Control Systems Department; from December 1992 to May 2011 - Head of the Automated Control Systems Department; from June 2011 to December 2014 - Head of the Information Technologies in Publishing Department; from January 2015 to May 2017 - Professor at Information Technologies in Publishing Department. From April 1991 to March 2017 - Vice-Rector for international relations at Lviv Polytechnic National University. Since 2017 he works at the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Vice-Minister for Higher Education and European Integration. Author of more than 130 scientific publications, including 12 inventions and 4 monographs.
Research interests include time-scale modification of speech signals, neural methods, real time signal and image processing, computational intelligence.