Dmitriy TarkhovDmitry Tarkhov, born 14 Jan 1958 in St. Petersburg. In 1981 graduated with honors from the faculty of physics and mechanics of Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, majoring in Applied Mathematics and entered graduate school at the Department "Highermatheatics". After graduation, heworked at the Department as an assistant, then associate Professor and continues to work presently as a Professor. In 1987 he defended the thesis "the Straightening of the trajectories on the infinite dimensional torus", for which he was awarded the degree of Ph.D. of physical and mathematical Sciences. In 1996, while working as a part-time chief systems analyst at the St. Petersburg Futures exchange he began studying neural networks. He has published more than 200 scientific papers on this topic. In 2006 he defended doctoral thesis "Mathematical modeling of technical objects on the basis of structural and parametrical adaptation of artificial neural networks", for which he was awarded the degree of doctor of technical Sciences. Read More Read Less