Zair Shamsiev

Zair Ziyaevich Shamsiev was born in Tashkent on 13 January 1946. He attended a general school until 1961, then the Tashkent Aviation Technical College, qualifying as an aircraft-building technician-mechanic. In 1964–1967 he trained at flying centres in Tashkent and Atkarsk (Russia) and qualified as a reserve helicopter pilot.

In 1966–1971 he studied at the Tashkent Polytechnic Institute, graduating as a mechanical engineer in aircraft building, and until 1984 he worked there as a trainee researcher, postgraduate, assistant and associate professor. In 1982–1983 he did a research placement at the University of Rome. In 1977 he defended a candidate’s dissertation at the Kharkiv Aviation Institute on the modelling and design of technological processes for assembling flat frame units of aircraft, becoming a Candidate of Technical Sciences.

From 1984 to 1995 he worked at the Institute of Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, rising from junior researcher to head of a laboratory. In 1991 he defended a doctoral dissertation at the Institute of Cybernetics in Kyiv on models and methods for synthesising technological control objects of flexible production systems, and became a Doctor of Technical Sciences; he was awarded the title of professor in 1992. His doctoral degree was recognised in Uzbekistan in 2004, and in 2011 his professorship was confirmed in the specialty “Automation and control of production and technological processes”.

In 1995–1998 Shamsiev was vice-rector for research of the Tashkent State Aviation Institute; in 1998–2004 he headed the bureau of scientific and technical planning and forecasting of an aviation production association; and in 2004–2008 he was acting vice-rector for research and information technology at the same institute. Since 2008 he has worked at Tashkent State Technical University, first as head of a department and then as a professor in aviation departments; since 2016 he has been a professor in the department of air navigation systems.

He has supervised 11 candidates and 2 doctors of technical sciences. He has published more than 160 scientific works, including two monographs and 14 articles in the National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan. In 2007–2013 he led four international educational and research projects under the Tempus and FP7 programmes, which resulted in teaching laboratories at Tashkent State Technical University.