Vladimir Nikiforov is the Vice Rector for Research at ITMO University, a professor at the Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics, the editor-in-chief of Scientific and Technical Journal of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (cited by Scopus), and the chairman of the Academic Degree Council.

Vladimir Nikiforov graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics (now ITMO University) with a degree in electrical engineering in 1986. He earned his PhD (thesis title: Adaptive control of trajectory motion of electro-mechanical systems) in 1991 and DSc (thesis title: Adaptive and robust control with compensation of external disturbances) in 2001.

Between 1986 and 2024, Prof. Nikiforov has held several positions at ITMO University: a researcher at the Department of Automatic and Remote Control (1986-1992), a lecturer at the Department of Automatic and Remote Control (1992), an associate professor (1992-2001), a professor (2001-present) at the Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics, and the Vice Rector for Research at ITMO University (2002-present).

Vladimir Nikiforov has also taken different part-time positions: in particular, he was an invited lecturer at Linkoping University (Sweden) in 1991; a senior a researcher at the Laboratory of Complex Systems at the Institute of Problems of Mechanical Engineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1993-1994 and 2000-2005); an associate professor at the St. Petersburg University of Printing Industry (1994-1997); a senior researcher at the federal research institute Elektropribor, St. Petersburg (1999-2004); the Vice Rector for Research at ITMO University (2002-present) and the technical director of the LOMO company (2004-2013).

From 1985 to present, Vladimir Nikiforov took part in more than 30 research projects, including:

• computer-based control systems for ship screw-propeller motor;

• adaptive control for trajectory motion of nonlinear systems;

• development and computer-aided design of high-precision path following control systems;

• digital control for a brushless DC motor of a mechatronic revolving table: design and experimental investigation;

• output-feedback adaptive control of linear and nonlinear systems;

• adaptive compensation of external disturbances;

• adaptive control of spark ignition engines.

The list of his published works includes more than 150 titles. Below is a list of the key recent publications:

Textbooks

• Nikiforov V., Gerasimov D. Adaptive Regulation: Reference Tracking and Disturbance Rejection, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2022. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96091-9. 

• Nikiforov V.O., Ushakov A.V. Control in the Presence of Uncertainties: Sensitivity, Adaptation and Robustness. St.Petersburg: ITMO Publ., 2004 (in Russian).

• Nikiforov V.O. Adaptive and Robust Control with Compensation of External Disturbances. St.Petersburg: Nauka, 2003 (in Russian).

• Miroshnik I.V., Nikiforov V.O., Fradkov A.L., Nonlinear and Adaptive Control of Complex Dynamical Systems. St.Petersburg: Nauka, 2000 (in Russian).

• Fradkov A.L., Miroshnik I.V., Nikiforov V.O. Nonlinear and Adaptive Control of Complex Systems. Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999. 

Papers

• Nikiforov V., Gerasimov D., Pashenko A., Modular Adaptive Backstepping Design with a High-Order Tuner // IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 67 (5), pp. 2663-2668, 2022, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2021.3091442.

• Gerasimov D.N., Nikiforov V.O., On key properties of the Lion's and Kreisselmeier's adaptation algorithms // Int. J. Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, 36 (6), pp. 1285-1304, 2022, doi: 10.1002/acs.3311.

• Gerasimov D.N., Belyaev M.E., Nikiforov V.O., Improvement of transient performance in MRAC by memory regressor extension // European Journal of Control, 59, pp. 264-273, 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.ejcon.2020.10.002.

• Ortega, R., Nikiforov, V., Gerasimov, D., On modified parameter estimators for identification and adaptive control. A unified framework and some new schemes // Annual Reviews in Control, 50, pp. 278-293, 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.arcontrol.2020.06.002.

• Gerasimov, D.N., Paramonov, A.V., Nikiforov, V.O., Algorithms of adaptive disturbance compensation in linear systems with arbitrary input delay // International Journal of Control, 93 (7), pp. 1596-1604, 2020, doi: 10.1080/00207179.2018.1521527

• Nikiforov, V.O., Paramonov, A.V., Gerasimov, D.N., Adaptive Control Algorithms in MIMO Linear Systems with Control Delay // Automation and Remote Control, 81 (6), pp. 1091-1106, 2020, doi: 10.1134/S0005117920060107.

• Ortega R., Gerasimov D.N.,Barabanov N.E., Nikiforov V.O., Adaptive control of linear multivariable systems using dynamic regressor extension and mixing estimators: removing the high-frequency gain assumption // Automatica, 2019, vol. 110, December, 108589.

• Gerasimov D.N., Miliushin A.S., Nikiforov V.O., Algorithms of adaptive tracking of unknown multisinusoidal signals in linear systems with arbitrary input delay // Int. J. of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, 2019, pp.900-912.

• Gerasimov D.N., Ortega R., Nikiforov V.O. Relaxing the high-frequency gain sign assumption in direct model reference adaptive control // European Journal of Control, 2018, vol.43, pp. 12-19.

• Efimov D.V., Nikiforov V.O., Javaherian H. Supervisory control of air–fuel ratio in spark ignition engines // Control Engineering Practice, 2014, vol.30, p. 27-33.

• Kolyubin S.A., Efimov D.V., Nikiforov V.O., Bobtsov A.A. Two-channel adaptive hybrid control of the air-to-fuel ratio and torque of automobile engines // Automation and Remote Control , vol. 73, no. 11, 2012, pp. 1794-1807.

• Gerasimov D.N., Javaherian H., Efimov D.V., and Nikiforov V.O. Injection Engine as a Control Object. II. Problems of Automatic Control of the Engine // Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International , vol. 49, no. 6, 2010, pр. 998-1008.

• Gerasimov D.N., Javaherian H., Efimov D.V., and Nikiforov V.O.  Injection Engine as a Control Object. I. Schematic Diagram of the Engine and Synthesis of a Mathematical Model// Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International, vol. 49, no. 5, 2010, pр. 811-822.

• Andrievsky B.R., Nikiforov V.O., Fradkov A.L. Synchronization of nonlinear non-passive systems on the basis of adaptive observers // Automation and Remote Control, 2007. no. 7, p. 74-89.

• Nikiforov V.O., Voronov K.V. Nonlinear adaptive controller with integral action // IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2001, vol. 46, no. 12, p. 2035–2037.

• Nikiforov V.O. Nonlinear servocompensation of unknown external disturbances. // Automatica, 2001, vol.37, p. 1647–1653.

• Nikiforov V.O., Voronov K.V. Adaptive backstepping with high-order tuner. // Automatica. 2001, vol.37. p. 1953–1960.

• Nikiforov V.O. Robust high-order tuner of simplified structure // Automatica, 1999, vol. 35, n. 8, p. 1409-1415.

• Nikiforov V.O. Adaptive non-linear tracking with complete compensation of unknown disturbances // European Journal of Control, vol. 4, no. 2, 1998, pp. 132-139. 

• Nikiforov V.O. Adaptive servomechanism controller with an implicit reference model // International Journal of Control, 1997, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 277-286.