Dr. Michael N. Rychagov

Director of Laboratory, Dr.Sc.

Work background:
Industrial Corporation “Scientific Center” (’89.8 – ’93.2)
Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology
* Assistant Professor (’93.2 – ’95.1)
* Associate Professor (’95.1 - ’02.6)
* Professor, Director of Scientific-Education Center (’02.7 - ’04.5)
Samsung R&D Institute Russia (’04.6 ~ ):
* Project leader (’04.6 – ’07.6)
* Group leader (’07.7 – ’10.5)
* Director of Laboratory (’10.5 ~ )

Others:
* Alexander-von Humboldt-Foundation, Germany (’93.9 – ’95.8)
* CNRS, France (’96.9 – ’97.9)
* CRDF (Panametrics Inc., General Electrics), USA (’98.01 – ’00.01)

Technical background & Specialty:
* Image and Video Signal Processing
* Tomographic Imaging
* Neural Network Algorithms

Main Contributions during last 10 years:
* Development and implementation of advanced solutions for printing & DSC applications (’04 - ’07)
* Creation of new algorithms for depth estimation for 3D TV applications (’08 - ’09)
* New R&D direction is launched – optical nano-scale imaging (’10)
* Fundamental results for auto MRI-planning via deep learning using CNN (’13)
* More than 25 patents and PA (incl. Korean, US & EU); 12 papers

Recognitions during last 10 years::
* Honorable diploma, Int Conf on Printing Tech, St-Petersburg, 2006
* 1st grade Diploma from VDD SEC for best Idea at Advanced Optics & Digital Video brainstorm, Moscow, 2006
* Member of the Program Committees of Int Conf “Design of scientific and technical applications using Matlab”,
since 2005; Int Conf “Graphicon”, since 2007
* Certificate for essential contribution in creation of Samsung’s intellectual property, SRC, 2007
* Award of Merit for the Best paper on Optical Nano-scale inspection technology, SAIT, 2011
* Highest Award of SAIT for Outstanding Contribution into Samsung Break-through Technologies, 2012
* Employee of the Year, DMC R&D Center, 2013