Igor Paromtchik received the MBA degree from the University of Chicago, USA in 2006. He received the PhD degree in System Analysis and Automatic Control, and the MS degree with honors in Radio-Physics and Electronics from the Belarusian State University in 1990 and 1985, respectively. Throughout his career, Igor's research interests have focused on motion planning and control of robots. From 1989 to 1992, he taught control engineering and robotics as an Assistant Professor at the Belarusian State University. While a Visiting Researcher at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany from 1992 to 1994, he helped to develop the control system of KAMRO, the Karlsruhe Autonomous Mobile Robot. In 1995, he became a Post-Doctoral Researcher and an Expert Engineer at INRIA in France, where he worked on intelligent vehicles and developed driver assistance prototypes of automatic parking systems until 2002. In 1997, he began a scientific collaboration on mobile robots with RIKEN in Japan, where he has served as Research Scientist with RIKEN Brain Science Institute, concurrently to his participation in the Executive MBA Program of the University of Chicago. In 2008, Igor re-joined INRIA in France to lead activities of ADT ArosDyn to develop and integrate technologies and software components for data processing from multiple sensors for real-time applications. His current research interests include robot control and intelligent transportation systems. Dr. Paromtchik has been involved in the program committees of several international conferences, including IEEE/RSJ IROS and DARS. He has authored more than 70 research and technical publications and holds seven patents.

A detailed résumé in English/French is available on request.           Email igor.paromtchik@gmail.com

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