Information Systems department was established on June 30, 1993 (Order of the Rector of KhPI №201-1 from 30.06.1993, according to the protocol of the Academic Council of KhPI from June 25, 1993) to train specialists in Information Technologies in the field of Computer Science. First Head of Information Systems department was Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs and International Relations, Professor Valeriy Kravets.
Administratively, initially it was attached to the AP Faculty, and then, after creation of the new Faculty of Computer and Information Technologies in 2004, it became one of the leading specialized departments of the Faculty, which trains bachelor’s and master’s students.
Initially the department was formed by Professor Valeriy Kravets , Associate Professors Sergiy Hridchyn and Victor Kovalev, Senior Lecturer Svitlana Podzolko, Assistants Vitliy Breslavets and V. Nilov and Head of the Center for New Information Technologies Volodymyr Dzheniuk, who later became the head of training laboratory. During more then 30-years period of the department’s existence, the head of department were Associate Professor, Candidate of Technical Sciences Sergiy Gridchyn (1993 – 1998), Professor, Candidate of Technical Sciences Boris Sudakov (1999 – 2005), Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences Oleksandr Serkov (2005 – 2020). Since 2020 head of the department is Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences Pavlo Pustovoitov.
According to the list of specialties of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the initial specialty “Intelligent Information Processing and Decision Making Systems” has undergone some changes and was later named “Intelligent Decision Making Systems” in the field of “Computer Science”.
This area of bachelor’s training has been preserved to nowadays, but the specialty has changed its name. Since 2012, the specialty “Artificial Intelligence Systems” has become the successor of this specialty for training specialists of the educational qualification level “specialist” and “master”. The first graduation (20 bachelors) in Computer Science was held in 1997, and the first 19 specialists successfully defended their diploma theses and got diplomas in 1999.
To train specialists in area of Telecommunications, since 2001 the department has been providing training at the bachelor’s degree level, the first graduation of which (20 bachelors) was held in 2005. Now the department trains specialists of the educational qualification level “bachelor” and “master” in the specialty “Telecommunication Systems and Networks”.
For more then 30 years of its existence, the department has trained more then 950 bachelors, 550 specialists and 171 masters in two specialties.
Through the efforts of the department’s staff, the department opened and trained specialists in the field of Acoustics during two years. Subsequently, a separate department was established to train the relevant specialists. Thus, the Department of Information Systems became the founder of a new department of the KIT Faculty, namely, the Department of Multimedia Information Technologies and Systems (Head of the Department Prof. Sergiy Poroshyn).
In 2009, Associate Professor of the Department, Candidate of Technical Sciences Pavlo Pustovoitov became a laureate of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for young scientists. Since the same year, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics Sciences, Professor, winner of the Loshkarev Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Igor Yakovenko has been working at the department.
Lecturers and staff of the Information Systems department have published more than 70 titles of methodological literature, including 15 textbooks with the stamp of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, published more than 700 scientific papers and received more than 300 patents of Ukraine for inventions. At the same time, 158 students became co-authors of inventions.
Since 2011, the CISCO Network Academy has been established at the Information Systems department of NTU “KPI”, which is located in the evening building of the university. The laboratory classroom has 14 computers and equipment designed to train specialists in the area of network technologies. The academy was headed by Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine, Academician of the Ukrainian Technological Academy, Honorary Doctor of Miskolc University, Excellence in Education of Ukraine, Vice-Rector of NTU “KPI”, Professor of the Department Valeriy Kravets. The instructors of the academy were senior lecturers of Information Systems department Nataliia Dzheniuk and Maksym Tolkachev.
The Information Systems department is a co-founder of the Educational and Scientific Production Complex (ESPC), which unites more than 25 institutions working in the field of telecommunications, including the State Enterprise for Special Communications, the State Enterprise “Ukrainian Research Institute of Communications”, the Carpathian Plant of Digital Telephone Exchanges, the O.S. Popov Odesa National Academy of Communications and others.
The scientific work of the department is carried out jointly with the Center for New Information Technologies (CNIT) and the Research and Design Institute “Molniya” within the framework of contractual and budgetary research in the area of information and communication technologies.
The “Molniya” Research and Design Institute is a basic facility of the Information Systems Department, where students gain practical skills in laboratory and practical classes, preparation of undergraduate course works and diploma projects, and dissertations of postgraduate and doctoral students. The scientific area of fundamental and applied research work is in the field of ensuring the requirements of electromagnetic compatibility of information and communication systems and networks, creating computer programs and checking the adequacy of the created mathematical and simulation models on physical models. At the same time, methods for ensuring lightning protection of buildings and structures for industrial and civil purposes are being developed.
On the basis of the CNIT, the department’s lecturers managed to orient the educational process to the use of modern information technologies with the use of experience. The staff of the department together with the staff of the CNIT participated in the creation of a corporate computer network of the university, which united more than 2500 computers located in 22 buildings and 12 dormitories. The team of the CNIT together with the staff of the department performed a large amount of work on connecting corporate networks of Kharkiv universities with optical communication lines. The modern URAN system (scientific and educational computer network) in Kharkiv unites more than 20 leading educational and scientific institutions of the city using fiber-optic communication lines.
The traditions of the department’s scientific school are supported at a high level by its graduates. They continue their studies and do research in the world’s leading institutions.