The Department of Information and Computation Systems was established in 1971. It was initially known as the Department of Automation and Mechanisation of Information Processing and Releasing. In 1987, it obtained its present name. In the process of formation and development of the department, the educational process is improved, facilities and resources are modernised. The high professional level of teaching staff (72% of them have academic ranks and titles including 22% Doctors of Sciences) has a beneficial effect on students training. Through its history the department has educated more than 2000 engineers. Graduates of the department work at leading enterprises in Penza and other Russian cities.

One of the main aims of the department is to prepare highly qualified specialists, who will contribute to the development of the IT industry. Students make annual reports at the regional and national scientific and technical conferences, participate and win student competitions, and publish their scientific results in collaboration with lecturers. They also undergo practical training in the major enterprises of the city. The level of their training allows them to work independently from the third or fourth academic year, thus combining study and work.

Fruitful cooperation between the Department of Information and Computation Systems and SECON Software Developers Association enables revitalising the software development industry in the Penza Region and engaging young people in the IT sphere, thereby creating a worthy talent pool for the national IT industry. Together they hold socially significant events, such as SECON Conference, SECON Gatherings, Hack Day, and IT Laboratory. These are the platforms for communicating, exchanging ideas and best practices, establishing contacts and finding partners, which bring together IT specialists, company owners, government representatives, and students.

Staff and students of the department is greatly involved in research on grants and government orders. In recent years, the following works have been carried out: “Developing ways to implement micro-consumption modes in multi-node wireless sensor network”; “Exploring continuously discrete systems with noncanonical structures”; “Studying nonlinear continuous-discrete structures of dynamic chaos”; “Modelling electrical activity of the heart”, etc. Over the last years, about 20 monographs and nearly 500 articles have been published, 300 copyright certificates and patents for inventions have been received. Research results of the department are annually reported at seminars and conferences of various levels.

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Bachelor

     Applied Informatics

Master

     Applied Informatics in Design
     Applied Informatics in Economy

Post-graduate

     Computer Science and Computer Engineering
     Instruments and Methods of Measurement
     Information-Measuring and Control Systems
     Computers and Control Systems Components and Devices
     Computers, Complexes and Networks
     Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science

RESEARCH

Research topics

•    Methods for designing information and computation systems and networks
•    Computerisation of educational process
•    Theory of continuously discrete systems with noncanonical structures
•    Developing and studying devices for measuring blood pressure as part of automated workstation of medical doctor
•    Geometric modelling and displaying of space stages
•    Jamming-resistant and cryptographic protection of information in computer networks
•    Neural network methods for solving boundary value problems in mathematical physics

Collaboration

Open Solutions LLC
Dionysus LLC
Commercial Bank Renaissance Credit
Rubin JSC
Research Institute for Physical Measurements
Online Systems LLC
GMCS LLC
CodeInside LLC
Soft-Service LLC
Algorithm-Service LLC
Info-Service LLC
Trading House Parapharm
Business Architect LLC
E-Government Operator OJSC
Maxoft LLC
PROF-IT LLC
Samsung Research Centre

CONTACTS

Prof. Dr. Andrei Kuzmin
Doctor of Engineering Sciences, Professor
Head of the Department

40 Krasnaya Street, building 7, office 408
Tel: +7 (8412) 66-65-70
E-mail: ivs@pnzgu.ru
Web-page of the Department of Information and Computation Systems (in Russian)