Abdubaki Kayumov

Abdubaki Kayumov was born in Tashkent on 17 March 1950. He left secondary school No. 24 in 1967 and went straight into the Tashkent Polytechnic Institute, where he qualified in 1972 as a mining engineer in hydrogeology.

His first job was as an engineer at Tashmetroproekt. He then became an assistant at the Tashkent Automobile and Road Institute (1973–1974), spent three years as a postgraduate at the Moscow Automobile and Road Institute and in 1978 defended his candidate dissertation, becoming a Candidate of Technical Sciences.

Back in Tashkent he taught until 1982 as a senior lecturer in the department of road construction technology and operation at the same Tashkent institute. The next six years went to research at the Central Asian branch of the All-Union road research institute, and in 1988–1991 he studied for a doctorate in Moscow.

He defended his doctoral dissertation in the specialty 05.23.11 (construction of roads and airfields) in 2006; it deals with the design characteristics of loess soils in road embankments and the technology of compacting them. His list of works includes 102 articles, five monographs, 25 research reports, 31 normative and methodological documents and four patents.

Since 2004 he has been an expert of the Council of Road Engineers of the CIS, and since 2008 a professor in the department of hydrogeology and geophysics at Tashkent State Technical University. He takes part in several dissertation councils and in the attestation commission of a centre for retraining teaching staff.