Igor Borisovich Shubinsky is a prominent Russian scientist who specialises in dependability, fault tolerance, and safety of technical systems, educator, expert in information security and adaptive fault tolerance of information systems. For 15 years, he has been an official expert of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. He authored over 400 research papers, including 18 monographs, about 40 study guides, more than 40 inventions and patents. Igor Shubinsky has 11 government awards. He was born on May 7, 1939 in Kiev.

In 1961, Igor Shubinsky graduated from the Kiev Higher Radio Engineering School (KVIRTU) of the Air Defence Forces with a degree of military radio detection engineer. Upon graduation, at the state research test site located in Kapustin Yar, he spent 10 years serving as an engineer, research test engineer, junior, then senior researcher. In 1969, he defended his Candidate of Engineering thesis. Since 1970, he taught in the Pushkin High Military College of Radio Electronics of Air Defence (PVURE) (Pushkin, Leningrad Oblast). He served in PVURE up to 1989. Having started as an instructor, he eventually became an associate professor, chief instructor, deputy head of chair, head of chair. In 1987, at his own initiative and in his off-work hours, Igor Shubinsky wrote and defended his doctorate thesis that aimed to improve the technical efficiency of automated missile defence control systems.

In 1989, Dr.Sci., Professor Igor Shubinsky left military service in the rank of colonel and lead the Chair of Computer and Programming of the S.M. Kirov Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) Forestry Academy (University). In 2000, he left teaching and engaged into research and development activities by leading first the Dependability Centre, then the Dependability and Information Security Division in the leading research and development institute, VNIIAS of the Russian Ministry of Railways (currently, JSC NIIAS, a leading research and development institute of the Russian Railways). In 2004, CJSC Information Security in Transportation (IBTrans) was founded. Igor Shubinsky has been continuously leading this organisation for 19 years. For his merits in the field of information security Prof. Shubinsky has been honoured with government awards of the FSTEC of Russia, as well as medals and a badge of honour of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

As the result of hard work performed by many researchers and railway engineers URRAN was created, a system for managing operational assets of the railway industry based on the management of resources, risks and dependability throughout the life cycle stages. Prof. I.B. Shubinsky has led the research activities since the beginning up until now. In Saint Petersburg, he has established a scientific school of adaptive fault tolerance of information systems (4 Doctors and 23 Candidates of Engineering), while in Moscow he created a scientific school of adaptive risk-based dependability management of large systems (3 Doctors and 6 Candidates of Engineering). Currently, Prof. Shubinsky is also the editor-in-chief of the Dependability research and engineering journal and deputy editor-in-chief of the electronic research and engineering journal Reliability. Theory and Applications.

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