Sofya V. Zhukova

Associate Professor, Information Technologies in Management Department

Executive certificate in Strategy and Innovation, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University, 2007
M. Sc. in High Performance Computing, Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University, 2004
B.Sc. in Complex Systems and Networks, Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University, 2002

Intelligent decision support systems
Soft computing (dynamic neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic)
Synergetics in management (chaos theory, synchronization theory, self-organization in nonlinear dynamic systems).

Papers in professional journals

Oscillatory neural networks with chaotic dynamics in cluster analysis // Neurocomputers: Design and Applications, 2011. — №7. — P. 74-86 (with E.N. Benderskaya) (in Russian)
Fractal analysis in chaotic neural networks with fragmentary synchronization // Nauchno-technicheskie vedomosti SPbSTU, 2010. — Vol 113, — № 6. — P. 10-18 (with E.N. Benderskaya) (in Russian)
Large-Dimension Image Clustering by Means of Fragmentary Synchronization in Chaotic Systems // Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, 2009. — Vol. 19, — № 2. — P. 306 – 316 (with E.N.Benderskaya)
Analysis of self-organization processes in chaotic cybernetic physical systems in application to data processing // Nauchno-technicheskie vedomosti SPbSTU, 2008. —Vol 63, — №4. — P. 133-138 (with E.N. Benderskaya) (in Russian)

Chapters in books and collections of essays

Chaotic Clustering: Fragmentary Synchronization of Fractal Waves/Benderskaya E.N., Zhukova S.V.//Chaotic Systems. — Croatia: InTech, 2011. — 187-202 P.
Synergy of Bio-Inspired Clustering Methods/Benderskaya E.N., Zhukova S.V.//Knowledge-Oriented Applications in Data Mining. — Croatia: InTech, 2011. — 398-410 P.
Oscillatory Chaotic Neural Network as a Hybrid System for Pattern Recognition // IEEE SSCI 2011 - Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence - HIMA 2011: 2011 IEEE Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications — Piscataway, NJ, — 2011. — P. 39-45 (with E.N.Benderskaya)
Self-organized clustering and classification: a unified approach via distributed chaotic computing // Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, 2011. — Vol. 91, — P. 423-431 (with E.N.Benderskaya)
Fragmentary Synchronization in Chaotic Neural Network and Data Mining // Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2009. — Vol. 5572, — P. 319-326 (with E.N.Benderskaya)

PAAMS'11 Award of Scientific Excellence. «Self-organized clustering and classification: a unified approach via distributed chaotic computing» paper has been awarded for its scientific quality, 2011, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
St. Petersburg Government – Grant for the best young Ph. D, “Information processing system on the base of self-organization effects in discrete chaotic systems with high dimensionality”, 2009

Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Andrew Towl Endowment Fund, Scholarship #586939, 2009
Winner of the RF project «Factory of thought» Statuette and diploma “For Innovations in IT”, «Innovation approach to data processing and analysis by means of chaos theory”, 2008
Human capital foundation, Great Britain. Winner project among IT research projects. The design of recurrent neural networks methodology to solve pattern recognition problems, 2007.
Winner of the contest for PhD students of Russia. Scholarship from the Government of Russian Federation, 2006
Winner of the SPbSPU contest «Young talents – the future of Polytechnic University”, 2006
Diploma I degree on the Scientific Section of the XI International Student Olympiad on Automatic Control for the Practical Contribution, St. Petersburg, 2006

Program committee member of 9th International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence (Spain), 2012
Invited professor at LUT School of Business (Finland), 2011 –
Membership in professional associations: IEEE Computational Intelligence, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2011 –
Member of GSOM Academic Council, 2009 – 2010
Academic Director for Bachelor Program, GSOM SPbU, 2009 – 2010