Education and Academic Activity

From 2009 to 2014, studied at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, majoring in Radio Engineering, and obtained a Master’s degree.

From 2014 to 2017, pursued postgraduate studies (PhD program) at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University in the specialty 05.12.13 – Radio Engineering Devices and Telecommunication Systems (Supervisor: Prof. L. F. Politanskyi, D.Sc.). Defended the dissertation at Lviv Polytechnic National University and obtained the degree of Candidate of Technical Sciences (PhD equivalent) in the same specialty.

From September 1, 2015, to July 1, 2016, completed an internship at Politecnico di Torino (Turin, Italy) under the EUROEAST program.

Since November 1, 2017, to present — Assistant Professor at the Department of Radio Engineering and Information Security, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University.

Since 2018 — Member of IEEE.

Projects and Grants

Participant of the LHCb Romanian Group, Intel® FPGA Academic Program, and AMD University Program.

Since January 2026 – present — Principal Investigator and Senior Researcher of the project:
“Intelligent System for the Detection of Explosive and Narcotic Substances in Non-Metallic Containers Using Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance”

Project duration: 2026–2028
Funding: Ukrainian State Budget (General Fund)
State Registration No.: 0126U002508
Total funding: UAH 4,500,000
Project Leader: A. P. Samila

Since January 2025 – present — Project Leader and Senior Researcher of the applied research project for young scientists:
“Portable Radio-Electronic System for Broadband Interference Synthesis”

Project duration: 2025–2027
State Registration No.: 0125U000836
Total funding: UAH 3,600,000

From 2023 to 2025 — Senior Researcher of the experimental development project for young scientists:
“Portable System for Ground-Based Aerial Detection of Explosive Devices”

State Registration No.: 0123U100679
Total funding: UAH 3,000,000
Project Leader: A. P. Samila

From 2020 to 2022 — Senior Researcher in the experimental development project for young scientists:
“Development of Hardware-Software Systems for Detection of Explosive and Narcotic Substances Based on Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance”

State Registration No.: 0120U101249
Total funding: UAH 2,400,000
Project Leader: A. P. Samila

In 2019 — Participant of a research project funded by Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University for young scientists:
“Development of a Deep Neural Network Accelerator Model Based on FPGA”

State Registration No.: 0119U103868
Funding: UAH 40,000

Awards

Recipient of the Chernivtsi City Council Scholarship for young scientists (2025) for outstanding achievements for the Chernivtsi territorial community.

Supervision of PhD Students

1. Yurii V. Herman
   Specialty: 172 – Telecommunications and Radio Engineering
   Dissertation topic: “Synthesis of digital signal processing units using high-level design methods based on SoC FPGA systems”

2. Oleksandr S. Verenko
   Specialty: G5 Electronics, Electronic Communications, Instrumentation and Radio Engineering
   Dissertation topic: “Interference immunity of spread-spectrum communication systems in the microwave range”