...the work in the field of artificial intelligence should be assessed on the analogy of natural intellect at a functional level in the first place. Nature entrusted intellect with functions of self-organization, self-development, passing on and use of the non-genetic component of experience at this level.

P.Sosnin.

 

Biography

Petr I. Sosnin, 1945, Ph.D (since 1974), Doctor of Science (since1994)., Professor (since 1995), the Head of Computer science department (since 1980).

 E-mail: sosnin@ulstu.ru

In 1968 he graduated from Ulyanovsk polytechnical institute.  He received his Ph.D. degree in metrology in 1973 at the Samara Polytechnical Institute. His doctor dissertation (the highest scientific level in Russia) has been defended  in 1994 at the Moscow Aviation Institute. In 1995 he received the state title of Professor.
Since 1968 Petr Sosnin has been employed at the Ulyanovsk polytechnical institute, holding in sequence all academic positions from teaching/research assistant to professor (1995). In 1979-80 he spent 10 months in the Belgium  as a scientific researcher  at the Liege University. Since 2000  till 2005 Petr Sosnin has worked as a vice-rector of Ulyanovsk state technical university.
P. Sosnin’s research interests focus on Artificial Intelligence Applications. He is the author and co-author of about 300 publications, 4 patents and 9 monographs.  He has been supervisor of over 100 B.Sc. and M.Sc. theses, as well as 17 Ph.D. dissertations and 2 Dr. dissertations. List of publications (till 2005)
Professor P.Sosnin is a member of international Academy of informatization (since 1995), a member of Russian and Europian Association of Artificial Intelligence (since 1999), a chair of the Ulyanovsk affiliate of the Russian Artificial Intelligence Association (since 1999), an active member of 3 dissertation boards. He is Member of IEEE, Computer Society and ACM.
He has been a Member of TPC and Steering Committees of numerous foreign and national conferences in the field of software engineering and Artificial Intelligence. Eight times he was a Chairman of the International Conference on Interactive Systems (1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009) which were held in Russia (Ulyanovsk).
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