For PhD students

A page for students pursuing the Doctor of Philosophy degree on the Computer Science educational and research programme, speciality F3 Computer Science: what you need during your postgraduate studies at the ICS Department and where to find it.

PhD admission

• PhD admissionRequirements, entrance examinations, competitive score, deadlines and contacts of the Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies Office.
• Educational and research programmeContent of the Computer Science programme, curricula, courses and accreditation.

Educational process

• Curricula and the programmeCurricula by year of admission and the text of the educational and research programme.
• CoursesCompulsory and elective components of the educational part.
• Syllabi and course programmesSyllabi and course programmes of the programme’s courses.

• Timetable
• Academic calendars — NURE Academic Office (in Ukrainian)
• NURE catalogue of elective courses — including university-wide electives (in Ukrainian)
• University learning platform — distance courses
• Educational process in postgraduate studies — page of the NURE Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies Office (in Ukrainian)

Supervisors and their research areas

• Petrov Kostiantyn Eduardovych
  Head of Department, D.Sc.
  Decision-making methods in organisational systems; data mining methods
• Levykin Viktor Makarovych
  Professor, D.Sc.
  Methodologies, methods and information technologies for developing integrated and web-based information systems
• Chalyi Serhii Fedorovych
  Professor, D.Sc.
  Case-Based Reasoning
• Ievlanov Maksym Viktorovych
  Professor, D.Sc.
  Evolutionary design and design management of ICS, data warehouses, integration of IS and OLAP technologies; project management methodology
• Chala Oksana Viktorivna
  Professor, D.Sc.
  Automated construction of knowledge bases
• Mikhnova Alina Volodymyrivna
  Associate Professor, PhD
  Research and development of specialised information and control systems; efficiency of information systems

Publications and research profiles of the supervisors are on their pages in the Staff section.

Research

• PhD students and dissertation topicsPostgraduate and doctoral students of the department, their research topics and supervisors.
• Defended dissertationsDissertations defended under the supervision of the department’s researchers.
• Research areasResearch areas of the department and its scientific school.
• Research projectsState-funded and contract research projects of the department.
• Laboratories and centresResearch and teaching laboratories of the department.
• Open scienceOpen access to publications, dissertations and research data.

Attestation of PhD students

PhD students undergo interim and annual attestation at a department meeting, where they report on the fulfilment of their individual plan. The procedure for attestation and dissertation defence is set out in the university regulation.

• Regulation on the Organisation of Attestation of Higher Education Students for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree at NURE2025
  NURE Order No. 115 of 4 April 2025 (in Ukrainian)
• Stages of the attestation process for a Doctor of Philosophy student
  Flowchart by the NURE Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies Office (in Ukrainian)

Document templates

• Individual training plan of a Doctor of Philosophy student
• Report form of a Doctor of Philosophy student on the fulfilment of the programme
• Extract from the minutes of a department meeting — interim attestation
• Extract from the minutes of a department meeting — annual attestation
• All document templates (PhD) — applications, extracts from minutes and documents for the dissertation defence (all templates are in Ukrainian)

International and grant activity

• Partnership — international partners, agreements and joint projects in which PhD students take part.
• Regulation on the Procedure for Exercising the Right to Academic Mobility — NURE Order No. 321 of 6 November 2024 (in Ukrainian).

Feedback and surveys

• Leave feedback on the programmeA form for PhD students, alumni and employers.
• Surveys and changes madeResults of student surveys and outcomes of programme discussions.

Regulations

• Regulation on the Training of Higher Education Students for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree at NURE2024
  NURE Order No. 209 of 16 July 2024 (in Ukrainian)
• Regulation on the Teaching Practice of Third-Level (Educational and Research) Higher Education Students at NURE2021
  NURE Order No. 221 of 8 July 2021 (in Ukrainian)
• Regulatory framework for postgraduate studies

  All regulations on the training and attestation of Doctors of Philosophy and Doctors of Science are on the page of the NURE Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies Office (in Ukrainian).

• Standards and regulations of the department

  The higher education standard for the Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, and regulations of the department and NURE.

Academic integrity

• Academic integrityRegulation and code of academic integrity, text-similarity checks, use of artificial intelligence, appeals, and equality and non-discrimination policies.

Events involving PhD students

Conferences, defences and achievements of the department’s PhD students are in the News section.