International Sakharov Environmental Institute of Belarusian State University

The Chair of Environmental Information Systems was established on October 5, 1995 (Order No. 13-O).

In 1996-2000 the chair was headed by PhD in Technical Sciences, Associate Professor Muravsky Vladimir Aleksandrovich. The chair trained ecologists in the specialty “Environmental Information systems” with the qualification “Ecologist-Analyst”. The main research areas are technologies of geoinformation systems, EPR of biological materials.

From December 2000 to September 2019, the Head of the Chair was PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Associate Professor Vladimir Alexandrovich Ivanyukovich. In 2005, for the first time in Belarus, the Chair organized training of students in the specialty “Information Systems and Technologies (in ecology)” with the qualification “Environmental Software Engineer”. In 2007, training in the field of Healthcare was started. Correspondence education was organized in both areas of the specialty. In the early 2000s, the chair academic staff was significantly strenghtened. Leading specialists of the institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus were invited to work on a permanent basis – PhDs in Physics and Mathematics T. V. Smirnova and A. L. Karpey, an employee of the A.D. Sevchenko Research Institute of BSU, PhD in Physics and Mathematics N. B. Borkovsky. Well – known scientists were invited to read lectures- Doctor in Technical Sciences, Professor A. S. Grinberg, Doctor in Technical Sciences, Professor V. P. Rogunovich, Doctor in Technical Sciences, Professor S. P. Kundas, PhD in Technical Sciences, Associate Professor G. L. Timonovich.

Two PhD”s theses in Technical Sciences were defended at the chair – Gishkelyuk I. A. and Khodko O. S. More than 30 graduates of the chair received an academic degree of masters in Technical Sciences, more than 600 graduates obtained the qualification “Software Engineer”.

Since September 2019, the Head of the Chair is PhD in Biology, Associate Professor Zhuravkov V. V. Taking into account the new areas of activity, the name of the chair has been changed to the Chair of Information Technologies in Ecology and Medicine.

Tasks of the chair:

• To form a comprehensive worldview of a specialist within the concept of sustainable development on the platform of competence in the information, economic, environmental and social spheres;
• To introduce innovative educational methods in integration with leading universities.
• To strengthen the practical focus of the subjects taught;
• To optimize training and production practices in accordance with the needs of consumers.

Chair work main directions:

• To improve the educational process of the department;
• To develop research and innovation activities;
• To improve the personnel potential of the chair’s academic staff;
• To improve educational and ideological work at the chair.

1. Analysis of biomedical data
2. Spatially distributed data analysis
3. Information technology hardware
4. Databases
5. Geographic information systems
6. Intelligent information systems
7. Information technology
8. Information technology and programming. Information technology
9. Information technology and programming. Programming
10. Operation research
11. Computer networks
12. Mathematical methods of forecasting
13. Medical information systems
14. Module “Information technologies and data processing”
15. Module “Information Technology and programming”
16. Object-oriented programming
17. Operating systems
18. Fundamentals of algorithmization and programming
19. Fundamentals of Business and Law in Information technology
20. Fundamentals of discrete Mathematics
21. Basics of data protection
22. Fundamentals of information technology
23. Programming Basics
24. Programming mobile apps
25. Programming in C
26. Programming network applications
27. System analysis and design of information systems
28. Modern computer technologies. Computer-based data processing technologies
29. Modern computer technologies. Computer technologies for solving applied problems
30. Statistical methods of data processing
31. Numerical methods and mathematical modeling
32. Pre-graduate (industrial practice)
33. Technological (production practice)

1. Module “Information systems and information security”. “Intelligent information systems in medicine”
2. Module “Information systems and information security”. “Computer security and information security in healthcare”
3. Module “Computer modeling in ecology”. “Computer visualization of environmental information”
4. Module “Computer modeling in ecology”. “Methods of environmental data processing”
5. “Fundamentals of information technology”

Main research directions:

• Processing of data arrays.
• Methods of data analysis.
• Mathematical modeling and forecasting of environmental processes.
• Analysis and processing of biomedical data.
• The innovative platform of the chair was opened in 2015 on the basis of the Hi Tech Park

Main research topics of the chair:

• To develop physical and mathematical models based on modern computer modeling methods and geoinformation technologies for visualizing the consequences of man-made and anthropogenic accidents and risk assessment;
• To develop a server-based information system that includes a relational database on pollution of major biogeocenoses (water resources, air, soil, waste, food, etc.) by man-made and anthropogenic sources; software tools to interact with the database and process, present and visualize information using modern GIS technologies.

Research projects

• Innovative information resource “Online monitoring system for the state of environmental components in Orsha and Orsha district”

• Training and methodical laboratory of innovative educational technologies;
• Student Research Laboratory for the design and development of automated systems
• Closed water environment management (aqua – and hydroponics);
• Student research laboratory of geoinformation systems.

• Branch of the chair based on the Joint Institute of Informatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus;
• Branch of the chair based on BELNITS “Ecology” of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus.

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