On 29 September, 2021, Dmitry Drozdov, a post-graduate student at the Faculty of Computer Engineering, Polytechnic Institute, Penza State University, successfully defended his PhD thesis at Luleå University of Technology - LTU (Sweden).

The thesis was defended in English. The theme of the thesis is «Development and Verification of Dependable Software of Cyber-Physical Systems using Time-aware Computations».

Dmitry Drozdov took a six-year training course under the Double-Degree Post-Graduate Course Agreement between PSU and LTU signed in 2016. The research advisor from LTU was Prof. Valery Vyatkin, Doctor of Sciences, Head of Department «Dependable Communication and Computation Systems»; from PSU - Viktor Dubinin, Doctor of Engineering Sciences, Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering.