Vladimir Kolpakov graduated from Orenburg State University in 2010 with a degree in meat and meat products technology. In 2016, he received a degree of candidate of agricultural sciences in breeding and genetics of farm animals. Since 2014, he has been working as a researcher at the Laboratory of Beef Cattle Breeding at the Federal Scientific Center for Biological Systems and Agrotechnologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2024, he became the head of the laboratory of precision technologies in agriculture at the same center. His main research areas include cattle, precision animal husbandry, breeding, genetics, reproduction, productivity assessment, pattern recognition, image processing, multibiometry, live weight assessment, machine learning, and forecasting.