Michael Zakharovich Zgurovsky - Rector of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Honored Scientist of Ukraine, laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology, Laureate Glushkov Prize of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, professor
Michael Zakharovich Zgurovsky (30.01.1950 Skala-Podilska Ternopil region) - Ph.D., Professor, Rector of NTUU "KPI" (since 1992), director of the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis MES and NAS of Ukraine (since 1997), Member of the National Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (elected: 14.04.1995, specialty: computer science and computer systems) and the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine (1995), Honored Scientist of Ukraine, three times winner of the State Prize of Ukraine in science and Technology (1990, 1999, 2005) , winner of the Glushkov Prize of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1994), Prize of B. Michalevic NAS of Ukraine (2000). He was awarded the Order "For Merit" III (1996), II (1998) and I (2005) degrees, honorary distinction of the President of Ukraine (1996), as well as state awards in Vietnam, Italy, France, Estonia, Japan.
In 1986-1987, he worked as deputy head of the research work of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1994-1999, he was the Minister of Education of Ukraine.
M. Zgurovsky is the member of many Ukrainian and foreign scientific societies. He is the board member of the Earth Data Network for education and scientific exchange (EDNES, Strasbourg, France), the national representative of Ukraine in the Committee of the World Data System (WDS, Paris, France), the national representative of Ukraine in the International Council for Science (ICSU, Paris, France) national Representative of Ukraine to the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA, Paris, France), a member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in education (Moscow, Russia), the representative of NTUU"KPI" in the Black Sea Universities Network (BSUN, Constance Romania), President of Central-East European Institute for Sustainable Development.
M. Zgurovsky is the graduate of KPI, faculty management systems, specialty "Automated Control Systems", 1975. PhD thesis "Optimal control for a class of discrete distributed processes unsteady heat transfer" (1979), doctoral thesis "Computer-aided design and optimal control of non-stationary processes and fields in a data uncertainty" (1984). Since 1975 - Engineer, Senior Engineer, Senior Researcher, Professor, Department of Technical Cybernetics, Vice President for Academic Affairs of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute. Since 1992 - Rector of the Institute (now the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute").
He is the author and co-author of over 300 scientific papers, including 38 monographs and textbooks published in Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Russia, Japan and other countries. M.Zgurovsky is the editor in chief of the magazine "System Research and Information Technologies" of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.