PhD Degree in Mathematics of Mr. Hamza Benzerrouk
Congratulations to IIAAT trainee from Algeria Hamza Benzerrouk, who
successfully defended his thesis on July 3, 2014, for a PhD degree at
St.-Petersburg State University in the field of mathematics. He became
a real representative of technical colleges and the first foreigner
to successfully pass the defence procedure at SPSU by similarly adopted
rules from most European universities for a PhD fulfillment.
St.-Petersburg State University received the right to award a graduate
degree last year, accepted worldwide, as in the Moscow State University.
While the PhD degree from SPbSU in mathematics received only three
students from SPSU last year. Hamza Benzerrouk was the fourth contender
for the award of PhD SPbSU, and the first not from St.-Petersburg State
University. In this sense, the IIAAT SUAI has exceeded other technical
schools of the city. Defence was held in English. By the St.-Petersburg
State University rector's orders, an international commission of seven
opponents with two European experts was established. The dissertation
titled, "Modern approaches in the theory of nonlinear filtering applied
to the original objectives of integrated aerospace navigation systems
with non-Gaussian noise" was published in the St.-Petersburg State
University in book form. The dissertation and the reviews by opponents
was published on the University website, and can be found at:
http://phdru.com/phd/spbsu/benzerukh
The book also includes 5 of 30 publications available with the permission
of the magazines, who owns the copyright. Most of the publications are made
in the system Scopus, Web of Science.
Supervisor of thesis – Head of the Chair number 11, Director of IIAAT
Prof. Alexander Nebylov.
The experience of a PhD thesis defence is important in connection with the
ongoing reorganization of the system of defence under the auspices of the
VAC. The VAC requires a dissertation and all accompanying documents to be
exclusively in Russian, which significantly narrows the Russian universities
success in the global education market. PhD defences and control of their
quality is completely determined by the university authority. For foreigners,
a PhD is more convenient than the candidate degree. The award is issued
quickly and immediately in English.