Mikhail Belov joined Skoltech Center for Digital Engineering as Professor of the Practice in 2023. He has 40+ year of industrial experience centered on cutting edge fields of enterprise systems engineering and management, economics and finance, enterprise digital transformation, technology-enabled business transformation, data analysis, operations research, electronics. He spent most of his career in executive positions in major Russian banks and companies and for over 20 years Mikhail was Deputy CEO of IBS responsible for new technologies and business development, when he implemented (as project director and architect) and supervised hundreds of projects in the field of enterprise management systems, engineering IT systems, PLM and other industrial IT systems. He also founded and led a startup specializing in advanced technologies for ultra-wideband multi-radar systems.
Research interests
Research in the fields of Systems Theory and General Theory of Control, mathematical methods of Cybernetics, and their applications to control sociotechnical and complex adaptive systems including:
- Systems Theory and systems engineering – sociotechnical systems, enterprise systems, complex systems, systems of systems engineering and management;
- Enterprise/product lifecycle value and cost modelling;
- Operations research;
- Contract theory and economic game theory;
- Stochastic processes, statistics, disorder problem; optimization methods in complex systems and economics;
- Mathematical modelling of economics of complex project/program management;
- Systems aspects of cognitive science, AI, internet of things.
Academic experience
2023 – present SKOLTECH, - Professor of the Practice
2016 – present Moscow Aviation Institute, Moscow, - Management School, Visiting Professor, - PLM-lab, Chief Scientist.
2018 – 2020 MISIS National University of Science and Technology, Moscow, - College of Information Business Systems, Visiting Professor, Head of Department.
2013 – 2017 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, - Faculty of Innovations and High Technologies, Visiting Professor.
Professional experience
2020 – 2023 SKOLTECH, - Chief Systems Engineer
2009 – 2020 IBS, Moscow, - Deputy CEO;
2004-2009 GelioSoft consulting (startup), Moscow, - President & Owner
2000-2004 IBS, Moscow, - CFO & COO
1991-1999 Russian Banks and Telecom Companies, - VP and executive positions
1982-1991 Central Scientific Research Institute “Cometa”, Moscow, Russia.- Engineer, R&D Group Leader
Education and degrees
- Doctor of Science, Institute of Control Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; June 2019
- MBA Finance; Joint program of MIRBIS business school, Moscow, Russia, and Guildhall University, London, UK; May 2001
- M.S. Finance; Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow, Russia; February 2001
- Ph.D. (candidate); Central Scientific Research Institute, Moscow, Russia; May 1988
- M.S. Electronics; Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia; February 1982.
