Victor Alexandrovich Soifer

Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Doctor of Engineering, Professor, and director of the Image Processing Systems Institute (IPSI) of the RAS. He is the recipient of the State Prize of the Russian Federation and the RF government prize in Science and Technology. He was awarded an Engineer qualification (1968) by Kuibyshev Aviation Institute (KuAI, presently, Samara State Aerospace University named after academician S.P. Korolyov, SSAU). He received a Doctor in Engineering degree (1979) from Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI" (ETU). He is a SPIE and IAPR member. He is the author and coauthor of a substantial number of scientific publications with high citation index, 10 books, and 50 author’s certificates and patents.