Mgr. Volodymyr Lynnyk, Ph.D.

Education 

Volodymyr Lynnyk was born in 1981. He graduated from the Physical-Technical Faculty of Sumy State University in Ukraine, majoring in Electronics (2004). In 2010, he obtained a Ph.D. in Control Engineering and Robotics from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Czech  Technical University in Prague.

Employment

Since 2004, Volodymyr Lynnyk has been a researcher at the Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Czech Academy of Sciences, in the Department of Control Theory.

Scientific Awards

Volodymyr Lynnyk has received several awards for his research work, including the UTIA Award for the best paper in the journal Kybernetika (2011), the Best Paper Award at the Nostradamus 2013 conference in Ostrava, a Certificate of Reviewing for the Journal of the Franklin Institute (2016), a Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing for the same journal (2017), a Certificate of Appreciation as the Best Reviewer of the Year 2024 for the International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (2025), and a Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing for the journal Kybernetika, awarded by the Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Czech Academy of Sciences (2025).

Research Projects

Volodymyr Lynnyk has participated in numerous research projects funded by the Czech Science Foundation. In 2007, he was the principal investigator of an internal CTU grant titled "Robust structure synchronization in dynamical complex networks". From 2013 to 2016, he was a research team member on the project "Analysis and control of globally decomposed strongly nonlinear state space dynamical models with complex interactions of their components". Between 2017 and 2019, he contributed to the project "Control of walking robots using collocated virtual holonomic constraints". From 2019 to 2022, Volodymyr Lynnyk served as principal investigator of the project "Synchronization and decentralized control of complex networks" and concurrently as a team member of the project "Control of nonlinear large-scale and multi-agent systems".

Teaching and Student Supervision

Volodymyr Lynnyk has been involved in academic teaching for many years. From 2005 to 2007 and again since 2018, he has taught the graduate course “Nonlinear Systems” at the Department of Control Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. In 2022, he supervised a successfully defended bachelor’s thesis on the topic “Calculating Lyapunov Exponents from Time Series,” and in 2023, another bachelor’s thesis titled “Chaos-based Pseudo-Random Number Generators,” both defended at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, CTU in Prague.

Editorial and Reviewing Activities

Volodymyr Lynnyk is also actively engaged in editorial and reviewing work. In 2023, he served as Guest Associate Editor for the journal Kybernetika. His expertise includes nonlinear control, control of chaotic systems, complex networks, and multi-agent systems. He regularly reviews papers for prestigious scientific journals such as Kybernetika, Journal of the Franklin Institute, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and for international conferences organized by IFAC and IEEE. He has completed a total of 139 verified reviews (ResearcherID: D-2836-2013).

Publication Record

Volodymyr Lynnyk is the author of 17 papers published in impact-factor journals indexed in the ISI Web of Knowledge, three papers in journals registered in the Scopus database, one chapter in a scholarly monograph, and 33 papers in proceedings of international peer-reviewed conferences indexed by Scopus and/or ISI Web of Knowledge. As of the end of 2024, his work has been cited 477 times according to Google Scholar, 387 times in Scopus, and 299 times in the ISI Web of Knowledge. His H-index is 11.