Kozachok Alexander Vasilievich

Kozachok Alexander Vasilievich

Scientific director of the project, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor

ISP RAS

Information security expert with more than 15 years of experience. Doctor of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor. Specialist in the field of machine learning, more than 10 years of experience. I have more than 140 scientific papers, 30 of which are included in the Web of Science and Scopus citation databases.

Place of work

Russian Federation Security Guard Service Federal Academy
Employee
Oryol
2005–present
Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Head of Laboratory
Oryol
2019–present

Technical and professional skills

  • Programming languages: Proficient in: C, C++, C#, TLA+ modeling languages Event-B, Python (PyTorch, Keras, TensorFlow, pandas, numpy, jupyter).
    Basic knowledge: Assembly, Java, SQL, symbolic verifier NuSMV.
    Version control systems: Git, SVN.
    DBMS: Postgres, Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server.
  • Foreign languages: Strong knowledge of technical English.
  • Basic Skills: Ability to present results (prepare presentations). Participation experience and developments in research and development. Ability to work in a team and lead a team. Writing ability technical reports and documentation. Confident LATEX proficiency.

Interests and extracurricular activities

  • I actively participate in scientific and organizational activities: I am a member of the editorial board of the journal “Issues of Cybersecurity”, “Telecommunications and Communications”, a member of the program committee of the annual conference of the ISP RAS named after. V.P. Ivannikov, as well as a member of the dissertation councils of the Academy of the FSO of Russia, ISP RAS and Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.
  • Organizer and head of the scientific laboratory "Secure Software and Data Analysis". The laboratory's work is aimed at developing technologies for vulnerability analysis and software protection.
  • Supervisor and scientific consultant of graduate students and applicants, 6 candidate dissertations were defended under my leadership. Currently I am supervising the training of 3 graduate students in the field of cybersecurity.
  • Initiator and developer of training courses on information security, static and dynamic software analysis, machine learning in information security problems. The courses are implemented as part of advanced training and master's training at RTU MIREA.
  • I am interested in the formalization and verification of security policies, architectural solutions for critical IT systems, as well as the use of machine learning methods for automated analysis of program code and detection of anomalies.
  • In my free time I enjoy hiking in nature.
Interests
  • Information security
  • Machine learning
  • Programming
Education
  • Higher education, Information security, 2005-2010

    Academy of the Federal Security Service of Russia

  • Candidate of Technical Sciences, Information Security, 2012

    Voronezh State Technical University

  • Doctor of Technical Sciences, Information Security, 2019

    Academy of the Federal Security Service of Russia

  • Associate Professor, Information Security, 2021

    Academy of the Federal Security Service of Russia