Andrey Volkov

Background

Andrey A. Volkov, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member. Russian Academy of Architecture and Building Sciences (RAASN), 09/21/1974.

Systems Engineer ("Design Automation Systems in Construction", Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (MGSU), Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany, 1996); Candidate of Technical Sciences (1999, 05.13.12 — Design Automation Systems); Doctor of Technical Sciences (2003, 05.13.01 — System Analysis, Management and information processing); Professor (2006); Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2012); "Project Management", Higher School of Economics (2012-2013).

Worked at MGSU (1994-2021), created and headed the faculty (2005-2011) and the department (2010-2015) Information systems, technologies and automation in construction, created and led the research of the Smart City Scientific and Educational Center (2007-2021).

Rector of the National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (NRU MGSU, 2013-2019).

President of the Association of Civil Engineering Universities (DIA, 2015-2021).

Author and head of the project "Joint Expert Initiative "Asingularity. Immersive Creation: Smart City 5.0" (since 2019).

Chief Researcher at the Information Modeling Center of the Stroitelstvo Research Center Joint-Stock Company (since 2021).

Visiting Professor, Scientific Director of the Smart City department at Harbin Polytechnic University, China (since 2021).

Five—time recipient of grants from the President of the Russian Federation to support young Russian scientists, doctors of sciences and leading scientific schools of the Russian Federation (2007-2019).

Winner of the Russian Government Prize in science and technology (information modeling, 2017, head of work) and in the field of education (Smart City, 2018, head of work).

Honorary Builder of Russia (2008), Honorary Builder of the City of Moscow (2017), Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education (2011), Honorary Professor of the DIA.

Head (grants from the President of the Russian Federation NSH-6545.2014.8 (2014-2015), NSh-3492.2018.8 (2018-2019)) the leading scientific school of the Russian Federation "Theory and analysis of systems in construction (system engineering of construction, cyberphysical building systems)"; heads the Russian working group, is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Computerization in Construction (since 2012).

Specialist in the field of systems analysis and engineering, information modeling, digital, intelligent and human-complementary creation technologies; author of the theory and taxonomy of the meta-model of "immersive creation", the concept of "asingularity", the concept and triad of system-attributive definitions of "Smart City 3.0(A)/4.0(B)/5.0(C — CSCOPE)"(Civilization Super Culture Omni Parametric Environment — the omniparametric environment of the supercultures of civilization).

Head of more than 50 specialized research programs and projects (since 1999); author/co-author of more than ten relevant regulatory documents in the field of digital transformation of the construction industry; author of lecture courses "Cybernetics of functional systems", "Cyberphysical building Systems", "Smart City: from practice to theory", "SmartCity: fromPracticetoTheory" (English); author, scientific director of the master's degree programs "Information Modeling in Construction", "Smart City. Technologies"; has trained several generations of system engineers, more than 50 candidates and doctors of technical sciences; author of more than 450 scientific publications, more than 100 objects of intellectual property.He is a member of the editorial boards and councils of industry scientific and technical publications ("Industrial and Civil Engineering", "Housing Construction", "Urban Planning", "Izvestiya vuzov. Construction", etc.).

He was repeatedly awarded with honorary badges, diplomas, commendations of the Federation Council and The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the Government of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, the Ministry of Construction (Gosstroy) of Russia, the Ministry of Defense of Russia, the Special Construction of Russia, the State Corporation Rosatom, the city of Moscow.