Scientific Activity

The Department of Automated Control Systems has strong scientific potential, which is formed thanks to the high professionalism of its scientific and teaching staff. As of the end of 2025, the department consists of 10 doctors of science (Vasyl Mykolayovych Teslyuk, Ivan Hryhorovych Tsmots, Mykola Oleksandrovych Medikovsky, Oleg Mykolayovych Berezsky, Volodymyr Vasylovych Riznyk, Denys Volodymyrovych Rudavsky, Lyubomyr Stepanovych Sikora, Iryna Vsevolodivna Pikh, Ihor Omelyanovych Protsko, Nataliya Korneliivna Lysa) and 33 candidates of science and doctors of philosophy.

Despite more than half a century of experience, this section reviews the main results of the department's scientific activity in recent years (2015–2025) — a period of dynamic changes in the field of computer science and the introduction of innovative technologies in scientific research. These changes are reflected in the department's new scientific direction, "Mathematical methods and models of information, software and technical means of real-time management of smart systems and smart information infrastructures."��

Thesis defences

During the period 2015–2025, two doctoral dissertations were defended at the department:

In 2018, Natalia Korneliivna Lysa defended her doctoral dissertation "Information technologies for creating environmental monitoring systems for the technogenic environment using developed laser sensors" in the specialty 05.13.06 "Information technologies" (scientific advisor: Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor L. S. Sikora);
In 2019 Igor Omelyanovich Protsko defended his doctoral dissertation "Improving the efficiency of calculating real harmonic transforms based on cyclic convolutions" in the specialty 01.05.02 "Mathematical modelling and computational methods" (scientific advisor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor V. M. Teslyuk).

Six candidate dissertations were defended in 2015–2021:

in 2015, Iryna Yevhenivna Vavruk in the specialty 05.13.23 "Artificial Intelligence Systems and Tools" (supervisor: Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor I. G. Tsmots);
in 2017, Olga Serhiivna Panova in the specialty 05.13.06 "Information Technologies" (supervisor: Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor K. M. Obelovska);
in 2018, Olga Yurievna Fedevich in the specialty 05.13.06 "Information Technologies" (supervisor: Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor I. M. Dronuk);
in 2019, Taras Vasylovych Teslyuk in the specialty 05.13.06 – "Information Technologies" (supervisor: Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor I. G. Tsmots);
in 2019, Vitaliy Stepanovich Kravchyshyn in the specialty 05.13.06 "Information Technologies" (supervisor: Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor M. O. Medikovsky);
in 2021, Volodymyr Yaroslavovych Antoniv in the specialty 05.13.06 “Information Technologies” (supervisor: Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor I. G. Tsmots).

In 2021–2025, eight PhDs defended their theses at the department in the field of 122 "Computer Science":

in 2021, Artem Gennadievich Kazarian, scientific supervisor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor V. M. Teslyuk;
in 2021, Roman Volodymyrovych Melnyk, scientific supervisor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor M. O. Medikovsky;
in 2023, Yurii Andriyovych Lukashchuk, scientific supervisor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor I. G. Tsmots;
in 2023, Dmytro Vasylovych Ostrovka, scientific supervisor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor V. M. Teslyuk;
in 2024, Petro Borysovych Lyashchynskyi, scientific supervisor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor O. M. Berezskyi;
in 2025, Hanna Yaroslavivna Nazarkevych, scientific supervisor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor I. G. Tsmots;
in 2025, Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Voityshyn, scientific supervisor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor V. M. Teslyuk;
in 2025, Khristina Vasylivna Beregovska, scientific supervisor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor V. M. Teslyuk
in 2025, Bohdan Petrovych Shubin, scientific supervisor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor T. A. Maksymiuk.

Scientific schools

The following scientific schools have been formed and are working fruitfully at the Department of Automated Control Systems:��

Methods and means of computational intelligence for the synthesis of smart systems – scientific supervisor of the school, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor V. M. Teslyuk.
Methods and intelligent problem-oriented real-time tools for the synthesis of mobile smart systems – scientific supervisor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor I. G. Tsmots;
Intelligent information and information-analytical technologies for energy efficiency management – scientific director, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor M. O. Medikovsky;
Cybersecurity of integrated systems infrastructure with management hierarchy – scientific supervisor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor L. S. Sikora;
Vector information and infocommunication technologies – scientific supervisor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor V. V. Riznyk;
Research and synthesis of effective computational algorithms – scientific supervisor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor I.O. Protsko.

State budget topics of the Department of Automated Control Systems in 2014–2025.

Research work "Intelligent information technologies for multi-level energy efficiency management in the region" (DB / "Energy Efficiency", state registration number 0117U004450), completion date 2017–2018, customer Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, scientific supervisor M. O. Medikovsky.
Research work "Neural network technology for real-time data protection and transmission using noise-like codes" (DB / "Neuroprotection", state registration number 0119U002256), completion date 2019–2020, customer Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, scientific supervisor I. G. Tsmots.
Research work "Experimental system of neural network cryptographic protection and real-time data transmission using barcode-like codes" (DB / "Neurosifr", state registration number 0121U109503), completion date 2021–2022, customer Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, scientific supervisor I. G. Tsmots.
Research work "Experimental mobile robotic platform with an intelligent control and data transmission protection system" (DB / "Neurobot", state registration number 0122U000891), completion date 2022–2023, customer Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, scientific supervisor V. M. Teslyuk.
Research work "Methods and means of neuro-fuzzy control of a group of mobile robotic platforms" (DB / "Neurogroup", state registration number 0123U101688), completion date 2023–2024, customer Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, scientific supervisor I. G. Tsmots.

Research work "Methods and means of intelligent measurement of motion parameters and determination of spatial orientation of ground mobile robotic platforms" (DB / "Neuro-movement", state registration number 0124U000822), completion date 2024–2026, customer Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, scientific supervisor V. M. Teslyuk.

International research projects of the Department of Automated Control Systems in 2014–2025
1. Joint Ukrainian-Austrian research project "Traffic and telecommunication networks modelling" (No. 0117U001612). Head: I. M. Dronuk, responsible executor: K. M. Obelovska, executors: postgraduate students of the department O. S. Panova and O. Yu. Fedevych, 2017.
2. Joint Ukrainian-Austrian research project "Traffic and telecommunication networks modeling" (No. 0118U001750). Head: I. M. Dronuk, responsible executor: K. M. Obelovska, executors: postgraduate students of the department O. S. Panova and O. Yu. Fedevych, 2018–2019.

Scientific seminars of the department

The department regularly holds scientific seminars on topics related to the department's scientific activities. The seminars are aimed at improving the scientific level of employees and the effectiveness of the educational process. The scientific supervisor of the seminars is the head of the department, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Prof. V. M. Teslyuk, and the secretary of the seminar is Candidate of Technical Sciences, Senior Researcher Yu. V. Opotyak. Seminar participants discuss issues related to the latest intellectual information technologies in the field of smart structures, robotic systems, methods and means of computational intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, and listen to the results of dissertation research.

Over the past ten years alone, more than 150 seminars have been held, at which more than 200 reports have been presented.��
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Scientific seminar of the department on the review of dissertation results

Plenary session of the International Scientific and Practical Conference��“Computational Intelligence and Smart Systems”, 2024

The speakers at the seminars are leading scientists from the department, postgraduate students from the department, and invited scientists from other organisations. Department staff and postgraduate students present current scientific developments in the fields of robotics, artificial intelligence, computer vision, virtual reality, and machine learning that solve important practical problems. Issues of personal data protection in smart systems, in accordance with the requirements of reliable artificial intelligence, which are key to the development of AI systems today, are discussed. These issues are being thoroughly researched at the department within the framework of the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet projects "Personal Data Protection in the EU" and "Reliable Artificial Intelligence: A European Approach" under the leadership of Associate Professor A. V. Doroshenko, since the developments carried out by the department's team can be used on the European market and must comply with all the requirements of European legislation (GDPR, AI Act, etc.).

At scientific seminars, department staff regularly report and review the scientific results of project implementation, discuss promising topics and propose new projects for participation in competitions organised by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the National Research Fund of Ukraine, etc.

The Department of Automated Control Systems holds international scientific and practical conferences on "Computational Intelligence and Smart Systems". The co-organisers of the conference are Comenius University Bratislava (Slovakia), Lodz University of Technology (Poland), and University of Applied Sciences Campus Vienna (Austria).

Thematic areas of the conference: methods and means of computational intelligence; methods of computational intelligence in smart systems; neural fuzzy methods of robotics systems control; methods and means of controlling a "smart" enterprise, a "smart" home, a "smart" city; augmented and virtual reality in smart systems; smart network security; methods of computational intelligence in medicine. The topics of individual sections of the conference are related to Erasmus+ educational projects in the Jean Monnet module, which are implemented at the Department of Automated Control Systems (AR4EDU, TrustAI and DataProEU).
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Workshop participants "Application of Computational Intelligence", 2024

In 2024, invited speakers presented their research in the field of intelligent data analysis and smart systems at the plenary session: Ricardo J. Rodríguez (University of Zaragoza, Spain), Maryam Nasser (Kingston University, United Kingdom), Gordon Hunter (Kingston University, United Kingdom).

The department periodically holds workshops during which participants examine issues in the field of computational intelligence, modern computer technologies and the development of smart systems in more detail, demonstrate practical developments related to the department's research topics, and discuss the results of educational projects. Following the review of developments and discussion of scientific and practical research results, experience is exchanged and the circle of potential partners for new start-ups and scientific projects is expanded.

Student scientific work

Every autumn, the Department of Automated Control Systems hosts a sub-section on "Information Management Topics and Technologies" as part of the Student Scientific and Technical Conference of ��APP. The topics of the scientific and technical conference correspond to the topics of the department and the specialities of "Information Management Systems and Technologies", and its purpose is to improve the quality of master's theses and student scientific research.

The materials of the reports are presented in the form of computer presentations with extensive use of diagrams, graphs, charts and tables. The departmental winners of the sub-section "Information Management Systems and Technologies" become participants in the institute's Student Scientific and Technical Conference.

Within the framework of the conferences, the department organises thematic sections to discuss the scientific and practical results of creating mobile intelligent systems and searching for partners for start-ups.

Participants in the thematic section on the creation of mobile platforms

Mobile platform models

Hackathons on topics related to the department's research are popular among students, particularly those on building smart systems, managing mobile ground platforms, creating Internet of Things tools, etc. Leading IT companies sponsor the events and provide prizes: SoftServe, EPAM, Agiliway, Embrox Solutions, GlobalLogic, and TetaLab.

In 2024, the department launched robotics hackathons. The first two, held in June and November 2024, were attended by about 50 students.

Participants in the Roborace hackathon, 2 November 2024. With sponsorship from EPAM and Embrox Solutions
a number of the department's classrooms were equipped

Participants of the Summer School "Personal Data Protection in IoT" (2024) in the educational laboratory equipped with the support of Embrox Solutions

Agiliway has made a significant contribution to the creation of a student smart space, which provides a comfortable place for students to spend their free time, provides internet access services, and is very popular among students.

For their achievements in academic and scientific work, students of the department have repeatedly received national awards. Scholarships from the President of Ukraine were awarded to Khristina Pelekh (2022) and Myroslav Mishchuk (2024), and a scholarship from the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine was awarded to Khristina Blyzniuk (2021).

Myroslav Mishchuk won first place in the All-Ukrainian competition of student research papers in the field of "Informatics and Cybernetics" in the 2020/21 academic year for his research paper on "Analysis and study of block-cyclic structures of the DCP kernel for the synthesis of fast harmonic transform algorithms" (supervisor – I. O. Protsko).

Students of the department have repeatedly participated in the finals of All-Ukrainian student Olympiads in programming and computer sciences.

In 2016, as part of the "Disciples" team, Ivan Voloshin won third place at the All-Ukrainian Student Olympiad in Programming (second division) in Odessa.

Mykola Zomchak won third place at the All-Ukrainian Student Olympiad 2017/18 in the specialty "Computer Science" in Kharkiv.
Every year, students of the department participate in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). In 2011, in the third stage (semi-finals) of this contest, Andrii Medvid, as part of the Prime team, took 25th place among 74 participating teams from seven countries of South-Eastern Europe. In 2023, Kateryna Bilyk participated in the semi-finals as part of the First Gen team.
Students Yaroslav Hashparich, Rostislav Lyukov, Roman Moiseev, Oleg Rozkvas, Chan Chi Kyong (Vietnam), Viktor Mikhailov, and Oleksandr Vinnichuk represented the university at the international data mining competitions "DATA MINING CUP" in 2015–2019.
In the 2018 competition, the Uni_LPNU_Lviv_2 team (Chan Chi Kyong, Roman Moiseev) took 16th place among 192 registered teams and 69 teams included in the tournament table.

Training of highly qualified scientific personnel

A separate area of the department's activity is the active work on training doctors and candidates of sciences and doctors of philosophy. It is organised by the university's doctoral and postgraduate department, and scientific and methodological work is carried out at the department. In 2014–2024, four specialised academic councils for the defence of doctoral dissertations worked at the ICNI with the active participation of leading professors of the Department of Automated Control Systems.

The first Specialised Academic Council D35.052.14, which operated from 2014 to 2016 chaired by Prof. Yurii Mykhailovych Rashkevych, Dr. Tech. Sci., the following people worked: Anatolii Yevhenovych Batyuk, Cand. Tech. Sci., Assoc. Prof., Assoc. Prof. of the Department of ACS – Scientific Secretary of the Special Council, speciality 05.13.06 "Information Technologies"; Mykola Oleksandrovych Medikovskyi, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Automated Control Systems – specialisation 05.13.06 "Information Technologies"; Lyubomyr Stepanovych Sikora, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of Automated Control Systems – specialisation 05.13.06 "Information Technologies"; Ivan Grygorovych Tsmots, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of Automated Control Systems – speciality 05.13.23 "Artificial Intelligence Systems and Tools".

The second Specialised Academic Council D35.052.14, which operated from 2017 to 2019, the following people worked: Mykola Oleksandrovych Medikovskyi, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of Automated Control Systems – Chairman of the Specialised Council, speciality 05.13.06 "Information Technologies"; Anatoliy Yevgenovych Batyuk, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Automated Control Systems – Scientific Secretary of the Specialised Council, specialisation 05.13.06 "Information Technologies"; Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Hrytsyk, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of Automated Control Systems – speciality 05.13.23 "Artificial Intelligence Systems and Tools"; Lyubomyr Stepanovych Sikora, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of Automated Control Systems – specialisation 05.13.06 "Information Technologies"; Ivan Hryhorovych Tsmots, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Automated Control Systems – specialisation 05.13.23 – "Artificial Intelligence Systems and Tools".

The third Specialised Academic Council D35.052.14, which operated in 2020–2022, the following people worked: Mykola Oleksandrovych Medikovskyi, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of Automated Control Systems – Chairman of the Specialised Council, speciality 05.13.06 – "Information Technologies"; Anatoliy Yevgenovych Batyuk, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Automated Control Systems, Scientific Secretary of the Specialised Council, specialisation 05.13.06 – "Information Technologies"; Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Hrytsyk, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of Automated Control Systems – specialisation 05.13.23 "Artificial Intelligence Systems and Tools"; Lyubomyr Stepanovych Sikora, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of Automated Control Systems – specialisation 05.13.06 "Information Technologies"; Vasyl Mykolayovych Teslyuk, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of Automated Control Systems – specialisation 05.13.06 “Information Technologies”; Ivan Grygorovych Tsmots, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Automated Control Systems – specialisation 05.13.23 "Artificial Intelligence Systems and Tools".

The fourth Specialised Academic Council D35.052.14, which operated from 2023 to 2024, included: Mykola Oleksandrovych Medikovskyi, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of Automated Control Systems – Chairman of the Specialised Council, speciality 05.13.06 "Information Technologies"; Anatoliy Yevgenovych Batyuk, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Automated Control Systems – Scientific Secretary of the Specialised Council, specialisation 05.13.06 "Information Technologies"; Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Hrytsyk, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of Automated Control Systems – speciality 05.13.23 "Artificial Intelligence Systems and Tools"; Lyubomyr Stepanovych Sikora, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of Automated Control Systems – specialisation 05.13.06 "Information Technologies"; Vasyl Mykolayovych Teslyuk, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Automated Control Systems – specialisation 05.13.06 "Information Technologies"; Ivan Grygorovych Tsmots, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of Automated Control Systems – specialisation 05.13.23 "Artificial Intelligence Systems and Tools".

The results of the work of specialised academic councils are as follows:

2014 – defence of six candidate dissertations (three in specialty 05.13.06 – Information Technologies; three in specialty 05.13.23 “Artificial Intelligence Systems”);
2015 – defence of 11 candidate dissertations (five in the specialty 05.13.06 – Information Technologies; six in the specialty 05.13.23 “Artificial Intelligence Systems”);
2016 – defence of one doctoral and one candidate dissertation in the specialty 05.13.06 "Information Technologies", one candidate dissertation in the specialty 05.13.23 "Artificial Intelligence Systems and Tools";
2017 – defence of three candidate dissertations in the specialty 05.13.06 "Information Technologies";
2018 – defence of three candidate dissertations in the specialty 05.13.06 – "Information Technologies" and one candidate dissertation in the specialty 05.13.23 "Artificial Intelligence Systems and Tools";
2019 – defence of one doctoral dissertation and four candidate dissertations in the specialty 05.13.06 "Information Technologies", one candidate dissertation in the specialty 05.13.23 "Artificial Intelligence Systems and Tools";
2020–2021 – defence of two candidate dissertations in the specialty 05.13.06 "Information Technologies", one doctoral and one candidate dissertation in the specialty 05.13.23 "Artificial Intelligence Systems and Tools";
2022–2023 – defence of a doctoral thesis in the specialty 05.13.23 "Artificial Intelligence Systems and Tools";
2024 – defence of candidate dissertations in the field of 05.13.06 "Information Technologies".

Defence of the doctoral thesis of D. V. Ostrovka

Since 2021, the Department of Automated Control Systems has been hosting one-off specialised councils for the defence of doctoral dissertations.

Between 2021 and 2024, five PhDs defended their theses in the specialty 122 "Computer Science" at the Department of Automated Control Systems: in 2021 Artem Gennadievich Kazarian, scientific supervisor Dr. Tech. Sci., Prof. V. M. Teslyuk; in 2021 Roman Vladimirovich Melnik, scientific supervisor Dr. Tech. Sci., Prof. M. O. Medikovsky; in 2023 Yurii Andriyovych Lukashchuk, scientific supervisor Dr. Tech. Sci., Prof. I. G. Tsmots; in 2023 Dmytro Vasylovych Ostrovka, scientific supervisor Dr. Tech. Sci., Prof. V. M. Teslyuk; in 2024 Petro Borysovych Lyashchynskyi, scientific supervisor Dr. of Technical Sciences, Prof. O. M. Berezskyi.

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