In 1996 he graduated from the Physical-Engineering Faculty of the USTU-UPI, specialty "Electronics and Automation of Physical Facility". After graduation, entered the postgraduate course, defended his thesis and worked at the university as a research fellow at
the Laboratory of Mesbauer Spectroscopy, and later as an assistant professor at the Printing Art and Web Design department, IRIT-RtF, UrFU. He is the co-author of more than seventy scientific works.
D. A. Tarasov, O. B. Milder, “Mathematics and practice of color space invariants by the example of determining the gray balance for a digital printing system”, Computer Optics, 44:1 (2020), 117–126
D. A. Tarasov, O. B. Milder, “Gradation trajectories as an analog of gradation curves in the metric CIE Lab space: discrete approach”, Computer Optics, 43:1 (2019), 132–136