St. Petersburg Federal Research Center
of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Director

RONZHIN Andrey Leonidovich, born in 1976, is Director of Saint Petersburg Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS). He received his M.Sc., PhD, Dr. Sc. Eng., Prof. and Prof. of RAS in 1999, 2003, 2010. 2013 and 2016 respectively.

\Head of laboratory of speech and multimodal interface during 2008-2015. Head of laboratory of autonomous robotics systems during 2015-2018. Deputy Director for research during 2013-2018. Head of department of electromechanics and robotics systems in St. Petersburg University of airspace instrumentation since 2016. Director of Saint Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS) during 2018-2020. In July 2020, SPIIRAS incorporated five other research institutions and has been transformed into SPC RAS.

A.L. Ronzhin is a specialist in the field of modeling natural communication and the development of interactive multimodal information-control and robotic systems. Under the leadership of A.L. Ronzhin a number of unique technical solutions were investigated and created that implement multimodal interfaces of the surrounding intelligent space, automation of maintenance and control of the interaction of heterogeneous robotic systems. Main international projects supervised by Professor A. Ronzhin are:

  • - ERA.Net Plus Project 99-HARMONIC “Collaborative strategies of heterogeneous robot activity at solving agriculture missions controlled via intuitive human-robot interfaces”, 2018-2020.
  • - Contract № 11.519.11.4025 «Development of Software for Assistive Multimodal Living Environment», The Russian Federal Targeted Program "R&D in Priority Fields of S&T Complex of Russia for 2007-2013", 2011-2013.
  • - Contract № 11.519.11.4020 «Development of methods and models of automatic processing of speech signals in intelligent informational-communicational systems», The Russian Federal Targeted Program "R&D in Priority Fields of S&T Complex of Russia for 2007-2013", 2011-2013.
  • - SIMILAR NoE “The European taskforce creating human-machine interfaces SIMILAR to human-human communication” IST-2002-507609, 2003-2007.
  • - INTAS № 04-77-7404 “Development of multi-voice and multi-language Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Speech-to-Text (STT) conversion system (languages: Belarussian, Polish, Russian)”, 2005-2007.

He is Member of Scientific Board of Robotics and Mechatronics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of the Academy of Navigation and Motion Control; Co-Chairman of International Conference Interactive Collaborative Robotics - ICR; He is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Journal “Informatics and Automation”.

Main publications (https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=16643978200):

  • • Ronzhin A., Ngo T., Vu Q., Nguyen V. Ground and Air Robotic Manipulation Systems in Agriculture Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Intelligent Systems Reference Library. 2022. Vol. 214. 282 p. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-86826-0
  • • Agriculture Digitalization and Organic Production. Springer. A. Ronzhin, A. Kostyaev (Eds.). Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 2022-2023. vol. 245, 331. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-7780-0
  • • Frontiers in Robotics and Electromechanics. A. Ronzhin, V. Pshikhopov (Eds.). Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 2023. vol. 329. https://link.springer.com/book/9789811976841
  • • Interactive Collaborative Robotics. A. Ronzhin et al. (Eds.). Springer International Publishing Switzerland. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. 2016-2022. Vol. 9812, 10459, 11097, 11659, 12998, 13719. https://link.springer.com/conference/icr

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