Graduated from Gorky State University in 1962. Received a doctoral degree in 1988. Received a title of Professor in 1994. Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation, Honored Worker of Higher School, and Winner of the USSR Council of Ministers. Head of the Center for Informatics and Intellectual Information Technologies of the Institute of Information Technology, Mathematics and Mechanics of the State University of Nizhny Novgorod. Scientific interests: theoretical and applied computer science, pattern recognition and image processing, and information technology. Author of more than 150 papers.

• Center for Informatics and Intellectual Information Technologies Institute of Information Technologies, Mathematics and Mechanics, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod