Alexander Anoprienko
Alexander Anoprienko is a Professor of the Computer Engineering Department of the . He also holds the position of the Director of the DonNTU Competence Center as well as the Director of the DonNTU UNITECH Technological Park. Since October 2014 he has held the position of the provisional Rector of DonNTU.
He is also a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Engineering Sciences, providing an expertise in computer systems and technologies, internet-based technologies, computer modeling and simulation as well as computing history. He contributes as author and administrator to the Ukrainian Research and Academic Network URAN.
Anoprienko was born 21 September 1957 in Stalino. After finishing secondary school №76 in Donetsk in 1974, he began a study at the Donetsk Polytechnic University, in the Department of Electronic Computing Machines. After graduating DonNTU, he joined the ECM department as a teaching and research assistant During 1989-90, he completed a 10-months internship at the High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart, funded by a German Academic Exchange Service grant.
In 2000, he became the coordinator of the DonNTU Technology Park. The park is known for projects like “Donetsk: 1000 images”, which became one of the first Ukrainian projects of such kind, and also an info-website “Gifted Generation”, dedicated to the issues of seeking and supporting gifted and talented children.
