The Distributed Intelligent Systems Department was founded in 2005 and now trains bachelors, masters and specialists in fields of information technologies and automation control systems. The head of the department is doctor of science, professor Viacheslav P. Shkodyrev. Our students studies by leading researches in technology of industrial automation for many applications and real-life scenarios where they can design, build, implement and evaluate industrial automation systems in different fields such as experiment in a science, industrial automation, information management and telecommunication.

Research and development, interaction with the industry are the major components of our activities. The Department has two branches in largest industrial enterprises of St. Petersburg. The Department together with company SIEMENS has created laboratory of industrial automation. Also was opened the Academic Competence Center SAP.

We focus our education programmes on fundamentals knowledge in theoretical and apply mathematics, numeric algebra, advance informatics and computer science, optimisation and decision making theory, formal logic, knowledge and reasoning theory. Students can obtain special knowledge in fields of artificial intelligence, neuroinformatics and cognitive systems theory, intelligent computing, knowledge engineering and management, advanced and intelligent robotics, computer networking and wireless communication, machine vision and images processing technology, agent-based technology.