The research activities of the Department of Information Technology staff are carried out within the existing scientific groups and directions:
- Intelligent Decision Support Systems: intelligent systems for proactive management of energy infrastructure under risk and uncertainty, decision support systems for the implementation of renewable energy sources, intelligent information technologies for forecasting vibrations in nature and various technical systems, decision support systems in medicine, including the development of new methods for processing unstructured medical data, development of decision support systems in medical diagnostics.
Supervisor: Head of the Department of Information Technology, Ph.D., Associate Professor Vira Viktorivna Shendryk, e-mail: v.shendryk@cs.sumdu.edu.ua.
- Development and implementation of automated systems for various purposes, methods of analysis, quality assessment, and optimization of human-machine systems, intelligent technologies for ergonomic support of human-machine interaction in computer systems.
Supervisor: Professor of the Department of Information Technology, D.Sc., Professor Yevhenii Anatoliiovych Lavrov, e-mail: e.lavrov@cs.sumdu.edu.ua.
The staff and students of SumDU are performers of R&D (Research and Development) projects funded by their own resources.
Research Project Title Registration Number Project Duration
Models and methods of information technologies for analysis and synthesis of structural, informational, and functional models of automated objects and processes (Modeli ta metody informatsiinykh tekhnolohii dlia analizu ta syntezu strukturnykh, informatsiinykh i funktsionalnykh modelei obiektiv i protsesiv, shcho avtomatyzuiutsia ) 0120U103071 2020-2024
Models and information technologies for design and management in complex systems (Modeli ta informatsiini tekhnolohii proektuvannia i upravlinnia v skladnykh systemakh) 0115U001569 2014-2019
Scientific and methodological foundations of information technologies development for distributed systems (Naukovo-metodolohichni osnovy rozrobky informatsiinykh tekhnolohii dlia rozpodilenykh system) 0111U006119 2011-2013
Implementation of modern information technologies for improving engineering education quality (Vprovadzhennia suchasnykh informatsiinykh tekhnolohii dlia pidvyshchennia yakosti inzhenernoi osvity) 0109U001481 2008-2011
Development of scientific and methodological foundations for automated design of power machinery and installations (Rozrobka naukovo-metodychnykh osnov avtomatyzovanoho proektuvannia enerhetychnykh mashyn ta ustanovok) 0107U001604 2007-2009
The faculty members of the department are also involved as co-executors of research and development projects commissioned by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine:
Head of the Department, Associate Professor V. Shendryk, Associate Professor Yu. Parfenenko, Associate Professor O. Boyko, Associate Professor V. Nagornyi – “Intelligent Information Technology for Proactive Management of Energy Infrastructure under Risks and Uncertainties (Intelektualna informatsiina tekhnolohiia proaktyvnoho upravlinnia enerhetychnoiu infrastrukturoiu v umovakh ryzykiv ta nevyznachenosti)”, Registration Number 0123U101852, 2023-2025.
Head of the Department, Associate Professor V. Shendryk, Associate Professor Yu. Parfenenko, Associate Professor O. Boyko, Associate Professor A. Marchenko – “Intelligent Information-Analytical Technologies and Tools for Presentation, Evaluation, and Management of the Country’s Energy Infrastructure (Intelektualni informatsiino-analitychni tekhnolohii i zasoby predstavlennia, otsiniuvannia ta upravlinnia enerhetychnoiu infrastrukturoiu krainy)”, Registration Number 0121U109558, 2021-2022.
Associate Professor V. Nagornyi and Associate Professor Yu. Parfenenko – “Formation Regularities of Nanoporous ZnO, C, C/ZnO, and ZnO/NiO for Potential Application as Electrodes in Lithium-Ion Batteries (Zakonomirnosti formuvannia nanoporystykh ZnO, S, S/ZnO i ZnO/NiO dlia potentsiinoho zastosuvannia u yakosti elektrodiv litii-ionnykh akumuliatoriv)”, Registration Number 0119U100763, 2019-2021.
Associate Professor V. Nagornyi and Senior Lecturer O. Boyko – “Intelligent Autonomous Onboard System of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Object Identification on the Terrain (Intelektualna avtonomna bortova systema bezpilotnoho litalnoho aparatu dlia identyfikatsii obiektiv na mistsevosti)”, Registration Number 0117U003934, 2017-2020.
Head of the Department, Associate Professor V. Shendryk – “Optimization and Automation of Financial Monitoring Processes for Enhancing Information Security of Ukraine (Optymizatsiia ta avtomatyzatsiia protsesiv finansovoho monitorinhu dlia zrostannia informatsiinoi bezpeky Ukrainy)”, Registration Number 0120U104810, 2021.
Head of the Department, Associate Professor V. Shendryk, Professor Ye. Lavrov – “Intelligent Self-Learning Prosthesis of Limb (Intelektualnyi protez kintsivky, shcho samonavchaietsia)”, Registration Number 0117U002248, 2019.
The faculty members of the Department of Information Technology have received individual grants, including those under international academic mobility programs:
- Antipenko Viktoriia – December 2014-March 2015, internship at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, grant from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine for student and graduate training, as well as internships for scientific and pedagogical staff at leading higher education institutions and research institutions abroad.
- Boyko Olha – September 2023, individual grant for conducting research at Malmö University, Sweden; June-July 2022, participation in the Summer School “IEEL026: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Global Challenges, Local Action, Achieved Outcomes” in Liverpool, United Kingdom; September 2014-July 2015, internship under the ERASMUS (EMINENCE II) program at Malmö University, Sweden.
- Parfenenko Yuliia – June-August 2023, “Remote scholarship” research grant from the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom; September-December 2019, individual grant for conducting research at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia.
- Fedotova Nataliia – June-August 2023, “Remote scholarship” research grant from the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom; June-August 2022, internship at Lublin University of Technology, Lublin, Poland.
- Shendryk Vira – September 2022-August 2024, individual grant for conducting research from the Kamprad Family Foundation under the Specific Open Call: Academic Visiting Researchers from Ukraine at Malmö University, Sweden; July-August 2023, “Visiting scholarship” research grant from the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom; October 2014, internship at Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia.
Faculty members of the department publish their research findings at international and All-Ukrainian conferences and seminars, as well as in professional publications in Ukraine and internationally peer-reviewed journals indexed by Scopus and Web of Science databases. Associate Professor V. Shendryk serves as a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Green Computing (IJGC), published by IGI Global in the USA.
The department involves graduate students in conducting state-funded research and development projects using the funds of Sumy State University and commissioned by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine:
- Research and Development Project “Intelligent Information-Analytical Technologies and Tools for Presentation, Evaluation, and Management of the Country’s Energy Infrastructure (Intelektualni informatsiino-analitychni tekhnolohii i zasoby predstavlennia, otsiniuvannia ta upravlinnia enerhetychnoiu infrastrukturoiu krainy)” – undergraduate students Sokruta, A. Zhovtobriukh, and master’s students Ya. Belka, V. Maikovskyi were co-executors in 2021; master’s students V. Zalotov and S. Tolstonozhenko were co-executors in 2022.
- Research and Development Project “Models and Methods of Information Technologies for Analysis and Synthesis of Structural, Informational, and Functional Models of Automated Objects and Processes (Modeli ta metody informatsiinykh tekhnolohii dlia analizu ta syntezu strukturnykh, informatsiinykh i funktsionalnykh modelei obiektiv i protsesiv, shcho avtomatyzuiutsia)” – graduate students Kurochkin, Yu. Mikhaylenko, T. Shcherban, Ye. Palazhchenko and S. Tolstonozhenkowere co-executors in 2020.
Here are selected scientific publications involving the graduate students:
- Shendryk V., Parfenenko Y., Tymchuk S., Kholiavka Y., Bielka Y. “Modeling techniques of electricity consumption forecasting.” – 2022. DOI: 10.1063/5.0100123, Scopus (graduate student in the master’s program, Belka Ya.).
- Parfenenko, Y., Verbytska, A., Bychko, D., Shendryk, V. “Application for medical misinformation detection in online forums.” 2020 8th E-Health and Bioengineering Conference, EHB 2020. DOI: 10.1109/EHB50910.2020.9280120, Scopus and WoS (graduate student in the master’s program, Verbytska A.).
- Vira Shendryk, Yuliia Parfenenko, Valentyn Maikovskyi, Denys Yurchenko, Sergii Shendryk. “Subsystem of collection, storage and visualization of operating data of the decision support system for microgrid management.” Computer systems and information technologies. – 2022. No.2. P. 69-77. DOI: 10.31891/csit-2022-2-8 (graduate student in the master’s program, Maikovskyi V.).
- Sokruta A., Parfenenko Yu. “Implementation of an information system for management support of energy networks with renewable energy sources.” Proceedings of the XIV All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference “Current Problems of Computer Science APKC-2022”: abstracts of reports. : Khmelnytskyi, 2022. pp. 277-280 (undergraduate student in the bachelor’s program, Sokruta A.O.).
- Ivanova T., Parfenenko Yu. “Web-oriented information system for searching IT project performers.” VI International Scientific and Practical Conference “Information Technologies in Culture, Art, Education, Science, Economics, and Business”: abstracts of reports. : Publishing Center of KNUKiM, 2021. pp. 81-83 (graduate student in the master’s program, Sokruta A.).
The department annually holds sectional meetings of the scientific and practical conference for professors, staff, postgraduates, and students in the fields of “Informatics, Mathematics, and Automation,” where the main results of the department’s research work with students are presented. You can find the archive of conference materials at: https://elitconference.sumdu.edu.ua/archive/
In terms of the number of awards received at the All-Ukrainian competitions of student scientific works, the specialty 122 “Computer Science,” including the educational program “Information Technology Design,” holds leading positions among the specialties of the university. Meanwhile, Sumy State University is among the leaders among higher educational institutions in Ukraine.
Awards of students of the ITP section
