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In 2002, he graduated from the St. Petersburg State Institute of Technology with a degree in computer aided design systems. In 2005, he defended his PhD thesis at the Department of Computer Aided Design and Control Systems of the St. Petersburg State Institute of Technology.

Area of scientific interests: researcher in the field of computer modeling of thermomechanical and thermodynamic processes; coupled DEM-CFD-FEM analysis of refractories raw materials treatment process.

In 2008, he graduated from the Department of Computing Machines, Complexes, Systems and Networks of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT).
In 2009, he completed his post-graduate course and defended his thesis on «Automation System of Complex Production Complexes of Oil and Gas Automation.» From 2016 to the present, he has been working at Sarov Engineering Center.

Major achievements and awards:

• Participation in more than 15 regional and five national conferences;
• Five publications in journals (in particular, in the journal «Higher Attestation Commission»);
• Named the best specialist of support and engineering analysis of 2015 among representatives of Siemens PLM Software in Russia;
• Creator of an effective method of promoting the STAR-CCM+ product among users using Internet technologies;
• Teaching for more than 10 years at leading universities of the country in the area of CFD computational hydro- and gas dynamics.

He received his PhD degree from Northeastern University, China in July 2016, and did his postdoctoral training at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands from January 2018 to January 2020.

He is interested in the development of CFD models and optimization strategies applied to fluid flow, heat and mass transfer in various metallurgical processes. Metallurgical reaction, product quality and energy efficiency are key aspects in his work. Recently, his research has focused on the following applications: electroslag remelting, continuous casting tundish, ladle refining, RH refining, KR treatment, etc.

He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (Technical University) in 1998. In 2004 and 2010, he defended his PhD and doctoral theses on the problems of complex modeling of physical processes in radio and electronic equipment. From 2000 to 2013, he worked at various institutions: from Research Assistant to Assistant Professor at the Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (currently part of the Higher School of Economics). He is a winner of the 2008 competition for state support of young Russian scientists — PhD (grant from the President of the Russian Federation).

Valery worked at a number of Russian and international companies, as a leading researcher at Aviation Electronics and Communication Systems and as a leading engineer at Samsung Display (office in South Korea) where he dealt with issues of computer modeling of complex technical objects.

Since 2018, he has been working as a leading engineer for Systems Modeling at CADFEM CIS.

In 2013, he graduated from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. He is an author of several academic papers.

He works at Siemens in the following areas: artificial intelligence at the level of automated technological process control system (APCS), virtual commissioning, energy management, integration of robotic cells in APCS, AR technologies in HMI systems.

Achievements and awards:

• Holder of a patent for a wearable industrial AR-headset RU 199991 U1;
• Preparation of demonstration examples of virtual commissioning solutions from the field level of the PLC, ending with SCADA systems and digital twins of the technological process;
• Holder of a patent for the adaptation of the SIMATIC Robot Integrator solution for the Russian market;
• Publication of academic papers on the topic «Using a servo pump and solar tracker.»

The experience of scientific activity is about 10 years. He is an author of more than 20 articles in scientific peer-reviewed journals.

Area of scientific interests: computer modeling of behavior of solids and physical mesomechanics of heterogeneous media. He is engaged in the development of physical and mathematical models that take into account structural, thermophysical and other features of the mechanical behavior of materials, including in the dynamic range of deformation rates.

From 1993 to 2005, he taught the disciplines of physical chemistry, applied system analysis, system design of materials, automated control systems at the Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Technology (Technical University). He worked as the chief officer of Pelar, chief development officer of EFESO Consulting, chief scientific officer of the SafeNet Engineering Center, and head of the St. Petersburg Technopark Business Development Center.

He is an author and developer of almaGRID software, as well as developer of network mathematical models, graph models, Bayesian networks.

For more than 10 years, he has been dealing with issues of heat transfer in refractory lining and related strength problems. In parallel, he has been engaged in research in the field of thermo-mechanics of refractory materials (FEM, DEM). He is an author of over 60 articles in scientific journals.

Area of scientific interests: hydrodynamic modeling applied to metallurgical units and kilns of the cement industry.

Since 2015, he has studied issues of structure formation of aluminum alloys under intense thermomechanical action in the process of welding and friction stirring treatment.
Since 2018, he has been researching the processes of local non-stationary metallurgy in wire-borne electron beam additive manufacturing of metal products.
He is an author of over 50 academic papers in foreign and Russian scientific journals, including Web of Science and Scopus indexed ones.

Area of scientific interests: the electron beam additive manufacturing of products of complex shape from titanium alloys and analysis of patterns of structure formation under various temperature conditions of the 3D printing process.

In 1985, she graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Engineering of Tomsk State University. After graduation, she worked at the Research Institute for Applied Mechanics as a junior researcher. From 1985 to 1992, she was a senior researcher. In 1990, she defended her PhD thesis on «Chemical Physics, including the Physics of Combustion and Explosion.»
From 1993 to 1995, she studied under the doctoral program of Tomsk State University (the Department of Mathematical Physics).In 1996, she defended her doctoral thesis on «Deformable Solid Mechanics» and «Solid State Physics.»
From 1994 to the present, she has been serving as the chief researcher at the Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia.

Area of scientific interests: construction of thermodynamically grounded models of complex deformable media; modeling of diffusion and diffusion-controlled processes in solid media including materials containing internal surfaces; modeling of solid-phase combustion processes taking into account stresses and strains arising in the reaction zone; modeling of physicochemical phenomena accompanying high-temperature technological processes and their stages; development of algorithms for the numerical study of related nonlinear problems of physical and chemical mechanics; modeling of combustion of gases in porous deformable media, combustion of high-energy systems; modeling of thermophysical processes in additive technologies; modeling of the synthesis of new materials in combined technologies.

Achievements, awards and grants:

• In 1995: winner of the Prize Named after M. A. Lavrentyev;
• In 2006: winner of the V.A. Koptyug Prize for the results in the field of modeling technological processes (together with colleagues from ISPMS SB RAS and PTI NAS (Belarus);
• In 2003: medal «For Merit to Tomsk State University.»

In 1979, he graduated from the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University. In 1994, he graduated from the School of Cultural Policy at the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR. He worked as a clinical psychologist, research assistant at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named after Lenin. Further. He served as a methodologist at the School of Cultural Policy and a methodologist at educational institutions, participated in a project in the field of political consulting, and worked as a private tutor. From 2000 to 2018, he worked as a leading consultant at STEP Consulting Center, combining work with the post of chief editor of the in-house magazine «Life of Business.»
From 2017 to the present, he has been working in professional journalism as a freelance writer specializing in IT issues. He is a permanent participant of INFOFORUM, TAdviser and CNews conferences and other thematic events on information technology, information security and artificial intelligence.

He is an author of seven books (psychology, economics, game technology), a distance learning course (finance) and more than 200 journal publications.

In 2013, he graduated from the Faculty of Power Engineering and Instrument Engineering at the Moscow State Machine-Building Institute «MAMI.»

He acted as the head of research work of the Ministry of Industry and Trade for the development of an electronic control unit for a diesel medium-sized engine, and also led the rapid design laboratory based on Hardware-in-the-Loop simulation (HIL) systems.
He has engineering experience in the mechanical engineering industry. He has experience in implementing projects in the field of engineering knowledge management and creating unified information systems at industrial enterprises, understands modern IT technologies, their commercial application and best implementation practices.

He is a practicing consultant with more than 10 years of experience in the field of digitalization of industrial enterprises.

He is a co-founder of Connective, a consulting company in the field of digitalization of the industry, development of the first in Russia cloud platform for intellectual property management for the mechanical engineering enterprises.

He is the founder of Connective PLM Club, a society of owners and top-mangers of manufacturing companies, who are interested in the implementation of the modern aspects of the enterprise management, business digitalization, improving the efficiency of research and development processes and engineering high-tech products. He is the CEO of IDEAL PLM, which provides services in the implementation of information technologies for the management of the product’s life cycle.

He participated in digitalization projects of several large industrial companies such as Power Plants, TMH, StarLine and several others.

Born in September 1990, he got his PhD degree from Wuhan University of Technology in March 2020. He studied at the Chair of Ceramics, University of Leoben, Austria from July to December 2018. He graduated from Kunming University of Science and Technology in 2015.
Dr. Tan has been devoted to the research on the damage mechanism of metallurgical components. He has carried out many innovative works in structural optimization design of purging plugs and prediction of service life as well as refining effect after optimization. In September 2020, he was one of the three winners of the 2020 Gustav Eirich Award.

In 2006, he graduated from the G. V. Plekhanov St. Petersburg State Mining Institute (Technical University). In 2009, he defended his PhD thesis on «Metallurgy of Ferrous, Non-ferrous and Rare Metals.»
Since 2009, he has worked as a teacher at the Department of Automation of Technological Processes and Production of the Mining University.
Also, he worked as an engineer and researcher at REC Mekhanobr-Tekhnika.
Since 2015, he has worked as a leading specialist at CADFEM CIS, and since 2016, as the Head of Business Development at Rocky DEM. He is a winner of the all-Russian competition for young scientists «Engineer of the Year — 2010.»

Since 2008, he has been engaged in computer modeling of bulk media, the use of 3D automated design technologies and numerical modeling of equipment and processes of the mining and metallurgical, and oil and gas industries.

Area of scientific interests: practice of applying numerical modeling of bulk media to increase the efficiency of processes of design and production enterprises.

He is a professor of the State Key Laboratory of Refractories and Metallurgy and School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Wuhan University of Technology, and serves as an associate editor in Journal of the Australian Ceramic Society and chairman of refractories at the Hubei Ceramic Society. He earned his PhD degree in materials science at Wuhan University of Technology in 2010. After this, he did post-doctoral research at the Chair of Ceramics at the University of Leoben. His research interests cover interaction between refractories and melts, mathematical and physical simulation of the application, and wear of refractories.

He won Hans Theisbacher Award for outstanding research at the University of Leoben, Austria, Young Teacher Nomination for metallurgy president award of national colleges and universities, he got excellent paper award in the youth academic annual meeting of the Chinese Society for Metals, and the first prize of Provincial Science and Technology Award for four times.

In 2017–2018: Implementation of Canadian technical standards in the framework of CETA, incl. CSA W59 «Welded Steel Construction (Metal Arc Welding)» and CSA W47.1 «Fusion Welding of Steel Company Certification» at Polish factories with the biggest production capacity in the metal structures sector including: Mostostal Wechta, Mostostal Siedlce, Mostostal Rudnik, Mostostal Chojnice, Protea Sp. z o.o. (steel structures for off-shores).
In 2017–2019: Project Manager, Spaw-Projekt Sp. z o.o., main duties: investment project management, coordination of laboratory works, initiating cooperation and building relations with the key clients.
From 2019: Research and Teaching Assistant, AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics.

Scientific achievements include 10 academic papers in JCR-indexed journals, 25 academic papers in other journals, two patent applications, 43 reports at national and international conferences.