Arkadii A ChikriiArkadii A. Chikrii received the Ph.D. degree in 1972 and the D.Sc. degree in 1979. He is a Professor (1989), Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2018), and Head of the department "Optimization of Controlled Processes" of the Istitute of Cybernetics, NAS of Ukraine. After graduation from Ivan Franko Lviv University in 1968, has been working with the Institute of Cybernetics. He is a Professor of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Professor of Ihor Sykorski National Technical University, and Professor of Yurij Fedkovich Chernivtsi National University. He is a specialist in the field of applied nonlinear analysis, theory of extremal problems, mathematical theory of control, theory of dynamic games, theory of search for moving objects, and computer technologies for analysis of conflict situations. He is the disciple and follower of L.S. Pontryagin, N.N. Krasovskii, and B.N. Pshenichnyi. He is the author of 6 books and over 550 articles. Dr. Chikrii is the Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology (1999), a recipient of Glushkov Award (2003), and the Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of education (2018). He is the Editor-in-Chief for the journal "Problemy Upravleniya I Informatiki" published in English in the USA under the title "Journal of Automation and Information Sciences" (since 2020). Read More Read Less