Scientific degrees:

• 1962 Dipl. Ing. of Automation and Remote Control, Thesis „Unsupervised Tuning of Control Systems “;
• 1968 Cand. of Science of Theoretical Cybernetics, Thesis „Theory and Algorithms of Unsupervised Pattern Recognition“;
• 1991 Dr. of Science of Applied Mathematics. Thesis „Theory of 2D-Grammars Applied to Picture Recognition“;
• 1993 Academic Degree Professor of Applied Mathematics;
• State Awards of Ukraine:
  
  • 1988 State Prize of Ukraine for outstanding achievements in science and technology;
  • 1997 State Prize of Ukraine for outstanding achievements in science and technology;
  • 2009 Diploma Ukrainian Parliament for significant merits to Ukrainian people.

Notable Contributions:

• 1968 Proposed an unsupervised learning algorithm that soon became known as the EM-algorithm in the peer-reviewed article „The interaction of learning and self-organization in pattern recognition”;
• One of the first to propose applying LP relaxation to MRF optimization. The claim was supported by reputable authors in scientific works, including „A Linear Programming Approach to Max-sum Problem: A Review” and „An Analysis of Convex Relaxations for MAP Estimation”;
• 2002 Textbook „Ten Lectures on Statistical and Structural Pattern Recognition,” Michail I. Schlesinger, Václav Hlaváč, originally in Czech („Deset přednášek z teorie statistického a strukturálního rozpoznávání”, 1999), also translated to Russian („Десять лекций по статистическому и структурному распознаванию”, 2004);
• Co-inventor of patents sold to Viewdle and then acquired by Google:
  
  • System and method for object clustering and identification in video;
  • System and method for identifying objects in video;
  • Method and system of person identification by facial image;
  • Object recognition and database population for video indexing.

Educational Activity:

• A series of lectures, „Statistical and Structural Pattern Recognition.“
• Previous:
  
  • Igor Sikorsky Kyiv National Technical University;
  • Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University;
• Current:
  
  • Institute of information technologies and systems of the National academy of sciences
    of Ukraine;
• Short time guest-professorship in:
  
  • Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic;
  • Dresden Technical University, Germany;
  • Masarik University, Brno, Czech Republic;
  • University of Surrey, Guildford, England.