Prof. Viacheslav Kovtun is the Head of the Computer Control Systems Department at the Vinnytsia National Technical University (since 2022). He received his MSc in Control Systems and Automation and entered graduate school in 2002, and then earned a PhD in Information and Measuring Systems in 2006 from Vinnytsia National Technical University. In 2021; he defended his dissertation "Information Technologies for Increasing the Dependability of Information Systems for Critical Use with Person Authentication by Voice" and received the degree of DrSc in Information Technology. In 2007, he started working as an Associate Professor there. In 2022, he served as Professor. His research interests include info-communication technologies, systems analysis, mathematical modelling, dependability assessment, pattern recognition, signal processing, machine learning, speaker recognition, and computer linguistics.