Rasim Alguliyev

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Rasim Mahammad Alguliyev
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Born (1958-01-20)January 20, 1958
Residence  Azerbaijan
Nationality Azerbaijani
Institutions Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
Alma mater Azerbaijan Polytechnic Institute named after C.Ildirim
Known for Academician-secretary of ANAS. Doctor of technical sciences, active member of ANAS[1]
Notable awards Tereggi Medal[2]

Rasim Mahammad Alguliyev (Azerbaijani: Rasim Məhəmməd oğlu Əliquliyev; January 20, 1958) — doctor of technical sciences, active member of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS).
Academician-secretary of ANAS, director of the Institute of Information Technology of ANAS.[3]

General information

  • Rasim Mahammad Alguliyev was born on January 20, 1958, in Barda district, Azerbaijian Republic.
  • He graduated from department of “Electronic computing machines” of “Automatics and computing machinery” faculty of Azerbaijan Polytechnic Institute named after C.Ildirim in 1979.
  • He worked as engineer and senior engineer, deputy komsomol and completed PhD at the Institute of Cybernetics of Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences during 1979-1986.
  • He was transferred to the Department of Automated Control Systems (DACS) of Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences in 1986, worked at positions of senior engineer, leading engineer, chief engineer of the project “National computing centers and data transfer network”, technical director – deputy director of the DACS.
  • He is the director of the Institute of Information Technology of ANAS since 2002.[4]
  • He was elected academic-secretary of ANAS in 2013.
  • He is doctor of technical sciences, professor, active member of ANAS.[5]
  • He was awarded with “Taraggi” medal by the decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2009.
  • He is married, has 1 daughter and 1 son.

Scientific-theoretical activity

  • Architectural principles, methods and algorithms were developed for the synthesis of multiprocessor packet switching centers performing adaptive routing function as the consequence of PhD thesis defended within the framework of joint research conducted by the Institute for Problems of Information Transmission of [USSR] Academy of Sciences in 1985–1990.
  • Postdoctoral thesis was defended on “Models and methods for information security in computer networks” as the consequence of research conducted by the Institute of System Analysis of Russian Academy of Sciences in 1995–2003.
  • The following research results were obtained from the postdoctoral thesis:
    • Several approaches were proposed for the formation of conception and realization of the national (corporate) information security system;
    • Scientific-methodological bases, architectural principles, models and algorithms were developed for synthesis of adaptive systems of functional modules with distributed infrastructure for information security in corporate networks;
    • Conceptual basics of establishment of virtual private networks with changing structure (chameleon) in order to increase information security level of group of corporate users in open computer networks, and models and methods for their synthesis were developed;
    • Methods and algorithms were developed for fighting threats of different types in computer systems and networks;
    • Models and algorithms were developed to select the optimal structures of distributed authentication systems of virtual private networks and providing their fault tolerance.
  • Research results are of great importance for the development and improvement of scientific and theoretical basics of widely studied Cloud and SDN technologies for the virtualization of network resources.
  • He organized and led “Problems of information security” department at the Information and Telecommunication Scientific Center of ANAS (the predecessor of the Institute of Information Technology) in 1997.
  • He organized “Problems of information society” department in 2007 at the Institute of Information Technology of ANAS and still leads the department.
  • Architectural principles and methods were proposed for the synthesis of special intelligent network to fight with spams of various types on national, corporate and individual levels.
  • Models and algorithms were developed for the synthesis of distributed computing environments on the Internet-platform, and for designing dynamically formed intelligent content-servers network using CDN technology.
  • For the synthesis of e-commerce systems, models and algorithms were proposed for the customer classification, optimal distribution of servers and their resources and business data.
  • Models, methods and algorithms were developed for summarization, clustering, classification of text data and Big Data mining.
  • Optimization models and algorithms, as well as the generalization of PageRank algorithm were proposed to improve the quality of information retrieval systems on the Internet.
  • Approaches and methods were developed for personal data mining, social networks analysis, secret protection, monitoring, evaluation, on-line management of the society and its security in e-government.
  • Multidisciplinary research has been conducted on information society formation, its different segments (e-science, e-education etc.) and aspects (information culture, information economy, etc.) and conceptual approaches and suggestions were proposed.
  • Approaches and models were proposed for extraction and analysis of social networks for various purposes in an on-line environment.
  • Methods and algorithms were developed for detection of the manifestations of information warfare on the Internet.
  • Models and algorithms were proposed to improve QoS of ad hoc and sensor networks.
  • He is focused on the identification of the current scientific and theoretical issues of information technology and computer science and their transformation to the country.
  • He was elected as a corresponding member to Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences on “Informatics” in 2007.
  • He is the chairman of the seminar on “Actual Problems of Information society and technology”.
  • R.Alguliyev has supervised 2 postdoctoral researchers and 20 PhD students. At present he supervises 7 postdoctoral researchers and 22 PhD students.

Scientific-practical and innovative activity

  • He closely participated in the development of national computing centers and data transfer networks within the framework of the program on the “Development of Automated Control Systems of the Republic of Azerbaijan” in the 80s and 90s of the previous century.
  • He closely participates in development and application of national innovative products and strategic high technology serving to improve defense capability of the country.
  • He closely participates in implementation of several strategically important national projects, and formation and development of national Internet infrastructure.
  • He closely participated in the implementation of and development of “Virtual Silk Highway” project supported by the NATO, which provides Internet access for national research institutions and universities.
  • He closely participated in the realization of national strategies, government programs, laws and decrees adopted for the formation of information society.
  • He closely participated in the formation and development of e-science in the country, its e-infrastructure AzScienceNet and improving it according to European standards.
  • He is a member of the TERENA General Assembly (Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association).
  • He closely participated in computerization of institutes and organizations of ANAS, development of various web resources, information systems, and Internet access.
  • He closely participated in the creation and development of Data Center in AzScienceNet, its resource virtualization, and providing supercomputing and cloud services to research institutions and researchers.

Scientific-organizational activity

  • He is the director of the Institute of Information Technology of ANAS since 2002.
  • He is academic-secretary and member of ANAS Presidium since 2013.
  • He is deputy Chairman of Problem Council on “Cybernetics, information technology and technical sciences” under the Republic Council for Organization and Coordination of Research.
  • He is member of program and organization committees and sections of several national and international scientific conferences and symposiums on Information technology problems.
  • Vice-president of “Azerbaijan Mathematical Society”.

Scientific-pedagogical activity

  • He has been a professor of Azerbaijan Technical University and Azerbaijan State Oil Academy. He delivered lectures on theoretical and technological basics of the development of computer systems and networks, information society and information security.
  • He was initiator and lecturer of the “Fundamentals of Information society” course for several years at the faculty of “Journalism” at Baku State University since 2008, for the first time in the higher education system of Azerbaijan.
  • He delivers lectures to the academic staff and students on the modern scientific and theoretical and practical problems of ICT by the invitation of various universities.
  • He established the Training Innovation Center at the Institute of Information Technology of ANAS in 2002 for the training of “Informatics” for PhD students from all disciplines.
  • He closely participates and gives an academic consulting in modernization of “Informatics” and other IT-oriented subjects for high schools and universities, preparation of electronic textbooks, and renewal of terminological base within the framework of reforms by The Ministry of Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Scientific-expertise and consulting activity

  • He has been reviewer of numerous papers, scientific editor of books and opponent of dissertation theses in information society and information technology.
  • Deputy Chairman of Scientific and Technical Board of the Ministry of Communication and High Technology of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
  • Member of the Scientific and Technical Board of the Ministry of Defense Industry of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
  • Closely participates in the publication of several international and national scientific journals on Computer Science and Informatics:
    • Member of editorial board of “American Journal of Computer Science and Engineering” (USA);
    • Member of editorial board of “International Journal of Computer Science and Control Engineering” journal (USA);
    • Member of editorial board of “International Journal of Educational Research and Information Science” journal (USA);
    • Member of editorial board of “Ubiquitons Computing and Internationalization” journal (South Korea);
    • Member of Advisory Board of “International Journal of Convergence Computing” journal (China);
    • Member of editorial board of “Internet of Things and Cloud Computing” journal (USA);
    • Member of editorial board of “International Journal of Sensors and Sensor Networks” journal (USA);
    • Member of editorial board of “International Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing” journal (USA);
    • Member of editorial board of “Telecommunications” (Russia);
    • Member of editorial board of “Transactions of ANAS” journal;
    • Member of editorial board of “Applied and Computational Mathematics” journal (Azerbaijan);
    • Editor-in-chief of “Problems of Information Technology” and “Problems of Information Society” (Azerbaijan).
  • Chairman of the Dissertation Board of the Institute of Information Technology of ANAS

Scientific-popular activity

  • He actively participates in promotion of information technology and information society ideas, regularly speaks on mass media, consults on several television and radio programs regarding ICT issues, and writes books and textbooks for a wide audience.
  • Member of editorial boards of newspaper “Science”, journals “Science and Life”, “World of Science” and “The Newsletter of ANAS” published by ANAS and other scientific and popular journals and magazines intended for a wide audience.

Public activity

  • Member of the editorial board of the Azerbaijan National Encyclopedia.
  • At the Third Congress of the World Azerbaijanis he was elected member of the Coordination Council of World Azerbaijanis.
  • Member of Management Board of Azerbaijan Press Council.

Publications and their classification

Classification of publications

  • The total number of publications: 429
  • Journal articles: 230
    • in international journals: 140
    • in national journals: 90
  • Papers in conference proceedings: 161
    • in international conference proceedings: 137
    • in national conference proceedings: 24
  • Monographs: 3
  • Scientific surveys and booklets: 18
  • Textbooks: 9
  • Dictionaries and encyclopedias: 4
  • Inventions and patents: 4
  • Papers in SCI-indexed journals: 23
  • Papers in journals and conference proceedings indexed in academic databases (Thomson Reuters, SCOPUS, ACM, IEEE, DBLP, EBSCO, Google Scholar, INSPEC, The British Library etc.): 297
  • Number of citations: 293
  • h-index: 9
  • i10-index: 9

Distribution of publications by the countries

Countries Journal articles Proceedings Books Inventions and patents
Azerbaijan 92 64 32 2
Russia 73 48 2 2
USA 36 1
UK 4
Ukraine 4 17
Netherlands 3 1
Poland 3 3
China 2 2
S.Korea 2
Egypt 2
Germany 1
Singapore 3
Hong Kong 1
Switzerland 1
Georgia 1 3
Moldova 1
Turkey 5
Belarus 5
Uzbekistan 4
France 1
Hungary 1
Japan 1
Malaysia 1 1
Israel 1
Spain 2
South Africa 1