Khusan Igamberdiev

Khusan Zakirovich Igamberdiev was born in Tashkent on 24 May 1946. He finished secondary school no. 46 in 1963, entered the Tashkent Polytechnic Institute and graduated in 1968 as an electrical engineer in automation and telemechanics.

He began work in 1968 as an assistant at the institute’s department of automation and telemechanics. From December 1968 to November 1969 he did military service, then returned to the department as an assistant and later a senior lecturer. He defended his candidate’s dissertation in 1974. In 1977–1986 he served part-time as deputy dean, and until 1992 he was a docent in the departments of automation and telemechanics and of automation of production processes.

In 1991 he defended his doctoral dissertation, “Methods and Algorithms of Regular Identification of Dynamic Control Objects”, in systems analysis and automatic control. From 1992 he has worked at Tashkent State Technical University: professor in the department of automation of production processes, scientific secretary of the university council in 2000–2001, dean of the Faculty of Electronics and Automation in 2001–2004, and head of the department of automation and control in 2004–2012.

His main research areas are identification, estimation, optimal and adaptive control, automation of technological processes and production, control of technical systems, and information-processing and control systems. His biography lists 468 scientific and methodological publications; he has trained 5 doctors and 22 candidates of science.

In 2000 he was given the title Honoured Youth Mentor of Uzbekistan. By a presidential decree of 29 December 2017 he was confirmed as a full member (academician) of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. He is now a professor in the department of intelligent engineering systems at Tashkent State Technical University.