Prof., Dr. Diveev is a renowned specialist in the field of control and a leading researcher in Russia in evolutionary computation and symbolic regression. He received the Ph.D. degree in technical science from Bauman Moscow State Technical University, in 1989, and Doctor of Sciences in 2001 in Dorodnitsyn Computing Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in 2009 he became a professor. Presently, he works as a Director of Robotic Center of Federal Research Center “Computer Science and Control” of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is also a Professor at the RUDN University, Engineering Department. He is the author of five books, more than 300 articles. Prof. Diveev is a member of the editorial board of the RUDN journal of Engineering Researches and journal of Instrument Engineering of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, a general chair of the INTELS Symposium.
Dr. Shmalko is a former student and follower of Prof. Diveev, received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science and Cybernetics from RUDN University, Engineering Dept. and the Ph.D. degree from Dorodnicyn Computing Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, in 2009. From 2007 to 2010, she was with IBM East Europe/Asia. Since 2010, she is a Senior researcher with the Computing Center of the Federal Research Center “Computer Science and Control” of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The authors’ current research interests are computational methods in control, symbolic regression and evolutionary computation with applications to model identification, optimization and control system synthesis. The authors conduct theoretical research and implement applied tasks on the basis of the Robotics Center of the Federal Research Center “Computer Science and Control” of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
