Leonid Alekseevich Ivanov
First Vice President and Chief Scientific Secretary of the International Academy of Engineering, First Vice President and Chief Scientific Secretary of the Russian Academy of Engineering, IAE and RAE Academician, Doctor of Information Technology, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Laureate of the Governmental Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology, Foreign Academician and Honorary Member of Engineering Academies of Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyz Republic, Republic of Tajikistan and others, Honorary Professor and Visiting Professor of a number of Russian and foreign universities and institutes, Member of the International Federation of Journalists, Union of Journalists of Russia and Moscow
Field of professional activity: Information technology. Systems analysis. Nanotechnology.
Awards of academic degrees and dates of their awarding:
– Doctor of Information Technology (November 17, 2023);
– Candidate of Technical Sciences (November 26, 1999).
Subject area and number of scientific papers. The author of 134 scientific papers. Materials published since 2002: 57 publications are cited in the RSCI (Hirsch index in the RSCI – 13); 59 publications – in WoS (Hirsch index in WoS – 11); 39 publications – in Scopus (Hirsch index in Scopus – 11).
Practical and creative achievements (projects developed and put into practice):
Restoration of activities and creation of new regional structures of the Russian Engineering Academy (in co-authorship), including: Bashkortostan regional branch; Bryansk regional branch; Voronezh scientific center; Head center in China; Ivanovo regional branch; Kabardino-Balkarian regional branch; Kaluga regional branch; Moscow regional branch; Novosibirsk regional branch; Penza regional branch; Ryazan regional branch; St. Petersburg regional branch; Saratov regional branch; Sakhalin regional branch; Sevastopol regional branch; Tatarstan regional branch; Khanty-Mansiysk regional branch; Chelyabinsk regional branch, etc.
Issue (co-authored) of the Information and Reference Publication Encyclopedia of the Russian Academy of Engineering. The Encyclopedia presents creative biographies of 1750 RAE members i.e. leading scientists, honored engineers and organizers of industrial production. The Encyclopedia systematizes information about people who, at the turn of the 20th – 21st centuries, actively contributed to the preservation and development of the intellectual potential of science and technology in the country in the main engineering areas by effectively implementing the achievements of fundamental science in the production sector.
Preparation and organization of the International Scientific and Technical Symposium “Modern Engineering Problems of Key Industries” of the International Kosyginsky Forum (2017, 2019, 2021, 2024, 2025). In 2021, the number of participants in the event (in person and online) amounted to 5,223 people. The forum was attended by leading Russian and foreign scientists, engineers, experts, entrepreneurs and media representatives.
– Issue of the journal “Bulletin of the Russian Engineering Academy” (co-authored). The journal publishes materials from leading scientists, engineers and specialists of the Russian Engineering Academy, as well as foreign members of the RIA. The journal “Bulletin of the Russian Engineering Academy” No. 2, 2024 was published in Russia and China in Russian and Chinese for the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Russian Federation (the successor to the USSR) and the People’s Republic of China. The journal “Bulletin of the Russian Engineering Academy” No. 1, 2025 was published for the 35th anniversary of the Academy.
In 2009 creation and development (co-authored) of the electronic publication “Nanotechnology in Construction: Scientific Internet Journal.”
The Journal «Nanotechnologies in Construction» has been included: in the List of Publications of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland; Web of Science (Emerging Sources Citation Index) (USA); Scopus (Netherlands); ASI (Germany); CA(pt), former title – Chemical Abstracts (USA); DOAJ (Sweden); EBSCO (USA); EZB (Germany); Index Copernicus International (Poland), CNKI (China), CrossRef (USA); Google Scholar; ISSN 2075-8545 (France); HEAL Link (Greece); ProQuest (USA); Readera (Russia); OAJI (USA); ResearchBib (Japan); ResearchGate (USA); eLIBRARY.RU (Russia); Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory (USA) et al. Each paper is assigned DOI, EDN. The papers are published in English and Russian.
Preparation and organization of the International Scientific Forum “Promising Tasks of Engineering Science” (2021, 2023). More than 100 organizations (academies, universities, institutes, associations, enterprises, etc.) from 8 countries that are members of the International Academy of Engineering and 22 regions of the Russian Federation became participants Forum in 2023.
Positions and missions:
– First Vice President and Chief Scientific Secretary of the Russian Academy of Engineering;
– First Vice President and Chief Scientific Secretary, Member of the Presidential Council in the International Academy of Engineering;
– Honorary Member of the International Advisory Board of the Base for International Cooperation in Intelligence and Robotics of Guangdong Province, China;
– Deputy Chairman of the Organizing Committee of All-Russian Competition named after the first printer Ivan Fedorov for the best publication on research, scientific and methodological works (monograph, encyclopedia, textbook, scientific journal);
– Deputy Chairman of the Competition Commission of All-Russian Competition “Young Scientist” named after Ivan Fedorov for the best publication on research work;
– Member of the Competition Commission of the International Professional Competition for the Award named after I.A. Grishmanov for workers of the building materials and construction industries;
– Member of the International Federation of Journalists, Union of Journalists of Russia and Moscow;
– Editor-in Chief of the Journal “Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Engineering”;
– Deputy Editor-in-Chief, in charge of the electronic publication “Nanotechnology in Construction”: Scientific Internet Journal;
– Deputy Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Journal “Information Society”;
– Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Emerging Technologies with Industrial Applications (Australia), etc.
Organization and participation in International and Russian summits, conferences, symposia:
– Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Committee in the International Scientific Forum “Promising Tasks of Engineering Science” (2021, 2023);
– Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Committee in the International Scientific and Technical Symposium “Modern Engineering Problems of Key Sectors of the Economy” at the International Kosygin Forum (2017, 2019, 2021, 2024, 2025);
– Deputy Chairman of the Organizing Committee at the International Forum “Solving Scientific and Technical Problems in Various Areas of Engineering for Sustainable Economic Development” (Moscow, Russia, 2016);
– Honorary Chairman of the International Conference on Industrial Informatics – Computing Technologies, Intelligent Technologies, Industrial Information Integration ICIICII (Wuhan, Shantou, China, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023);
– Member of the Organizing Committee at the International Conference on Innovative Design and Production ICIDM (Wuhan, China, 2018, 2023)
– Member of the Organizing Committee at the National Scientific and Practical Conference with International Participation “Modeling of Energy Information Processes” (Voronezh, Russia, 2023);
– Participant (co-speaker) at the Forum of the International Academy of Communications at MAS-2020 Expocentre, Scientific Session on Quantum Technologies and Quantum Communications (Moscow, Russia, 2020);
– Participant (co-speaker) of the Forum of the International Academy of Communications at MAS-2021 Expocentre, Scientific Session on Quantum Technologies and Quantum Communications, joint report (Moscow, Russia, 2021);
– Participant (co-speaker) at the Forum “Unique Russia – 2022” (Gostiny Dvor, Moscow), Scientific Session on Quantum Technologies and Quantum Communications (Moscow, Russia, 2022);
– Participant (co-speaker) at the Oil and Gas Forum, Scientific Session “Digital Technologies” (Holiday INN Lesnaya) (Moscow, Russia, 2023);
– Co-speaker at the International Arctic Summit, Moscow University of Transport, Scientific Session on Quantum Technologies and Quantum Communications (Moscow, Russia, 2023);
– Speaker at the International Conference on Innovative Design and Production ICIDM (Wuhan, China, 2018, 2023);
– Speaker at the 6th International Symposium on Nanotechnology in NICOM-6 Construction (Hong Kong, 2018);
– Speaker at the International Seminar on Sustainable Development, Economy and Security of ISSES-2019 (Szczecin, Poland, 2019);
– Speaker at the International Conference on Industrial Informatics – Computing Technologies, Intelligent Technologies, Industrial Information Integration ICIICII (Wuhan, Shantou, China, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022), etc.
State and Public Awards, International Recognition
For his contribution to the development of the Media, Leonid Alekseevich Ivanov was awarded the Badge of Honor of the Journalists Union of Russia “For Services to the Professional Community,” in 2011 he was awarded the National Prize “Russian Construction Olympus” in the nomination: “Leader of the Year” for his great contribution to the development of the Media.
In 2021, Ivanov L.A. as part of the team of authors was awarded the Governmental Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology for the development and implementation of the innovative complex of textile technologies to produce nano-fibre non-woven materials and technical means to protect the population, personnel, the environment from technogenic and biological influences in the interests of strategic state security.
For outstanding contribution to the development of engineering, creation and development of RAE and IAE structures, active participation in publishing, as well as for special achievements in the development of interstate scientific and technical ties, he was awarded the Order of Engineering Glory of the Russian Academy of Engineering, Big Gold Medal of the Engineering Academy of Georgia, Gold Medal of the Engineering Academy of the Kyrgyz Republic “Engineering Glory,” the Gold Medal “Engineering Valor” of the Azerbaijan Engineering Academy; awarded the title “Honorary (Foreign) Academician of the Engineering Academy of the Republic of Tajikistan,” “Honorary Academician of the Engineering Academy of the Kyrgyz Republic”; elected Honorary Member of the Engineering Academy of Armenia, Foreign Member of the Engineering Academy of Georgia, Honorary Professor and Visiting Professor of a number of Russian and foreign universities and institutes :
– Honorary Professor of the Voronezh State University of Engineering Technologies, Russia (since 2025 – present);
– Visiting Professor at Wuhan University of Technology, China (since 2016 to present);
– Honorary Professor at Shantou University, China (since 2019 up to present);
– Honorary Professor, Digital Signal and Image Processing Laboratory, Guangdong Province, China (since 2021 up to present);
– Honorary Member of the International Advisory Council of the Base for International Cooperation of Evolutionary Intelligence and Robotics of Guangdong Province, China (since 2021 up to present);
– Honorary Professor of Beijing Institute of Intellectual Property, China (since 2023 up to present), etc.