Valentin Polishchuk
Associate professor, senior lecturer in air transportation
Communications and Transport Systems,
ITN, Linköping University
Adjunct professor
Computer Science Department,
University of Helsinki
Contact info
Email: valentin.polishchuk@liu.se
Phone: +46 73 6569219
Homepage: itn.liu.se/~valpo40/
Postal address: Linköping University / ITN, SE 60174 Norrköping, Sweden
Visiting address: Linköping University / Campus Norrköping,
Spetsen
(Luntgatan 2),
room 6211
Research interests
computational geometry, air traffic management, robotics, sensor networks, GIS
Grants
PI
New paradigms for autonomous unmanned air traffic management (2019-2024), Swedish Research Council
Towards Multidimensional Adaptive KPIs (2019-2024), Trafikverket
Optimizing Aircraft Descent for Environmentally Sustainable Aviation (2020-2024), KTH
CSA
Performance-Based Services for UTM (2019-2023), Trafikverket
Impact of fleet diversity and weather on emissions, noise and predictability (2019-2021), Transportstyrelsen
UTM optimization and airspace capacity (2016-2020), Trafikverket
Optimal design of terminal airspace (2015-2018), VINNOVA
Upper airspace optimization (2017-2018), LFV
CompGeom group support (2012-2015),
Research Foundation (U of Helsinki)
Geospatial aspects of physical network security (2014), VINNOVA
Towards automatic (pre-)processing of seismic data (2012), Academy of Finland
Postdoctoral researcher grant (2011-2013), Academy of Finland
Participation in EU projects
AiRMOUR (H2020),
FMP-Met,
Metropolis 2,
CORUS-XUAM,
ECHO 2 (SESAR)
co-PI
Electric aircraft network (2024-2027), Trafikverket
Reasonable time to act (2024-2027), Trafikverket
Automation program 2 (2020-2025), Trafikverket
Integrating weather prediction models into ATM (2019-2021), Engage network (SESAR)
Sustainable airports locations (2016-2020), Trafikverket
Digital traffic control optimization (2016-2018), LFV
Editorial board
Computing in Geometry and Topology
Guest editor
ACM JEA special issue on ALENEX'17,
CGTA special issue on EuroCG'17
PC
SoCG '10, '17, '23,
SoCG multimedia '13, '19, '21 (chair),
CG:YRF'24 (chair),
ESA'24,
SWAT'22,
WAFR'20, '22,
EuroCG '17, '19, '21, '23,
SToC/SoCG'16
WoGaML,
CALDAM'22,
ISUT'17,'18,
ICUMT '08-18,
ALENEX'17,
ALGOSENSORS'14,
CSR'19
OC
SWAT'12,
EuroCG'17
PhD committees
J. Chevalier,
E. Hernández-Romero,
M. Liang,
J. Zhou,
P. Boström-Rost,
E. Andrés Endériz,
A. Guitart,
K. Huynh
Positions of trust
Proposal evaluator, Israel Science Foundation
Steering board, FMP-Met project, SESAR
Reference group. U-space regulations project. Transportstyrelsen
External evaluator and PC member, KTH Centre for Sustainable Aviation
Supervisory duties
PhD students
A. Lemetti, H. Hardell, L. Smetanova
T. Talvitie 2019 (CS Dept, U of Helsinki),
A. Kinene 2022,
L. Sedov 2023
Postdoctoral researchers 2015-2018 (currently associate professors)
CompGeom group leading 2012-2015,
CS Dept, University of Helsinki
Students recognition
Eurocontrol vertiport challenge (1st place), 2022 (to A. Lemetti and L. Sedov)
French--Swedish Research Association prize, 2020 (to L. Sedov)
SESAR Young Scientist Award (3rd place), 2019 (to L. Sedov)
LFV innovation scholarship, 2017 (L. Sedov), 2020 (A. Lemetti), 2022 (H. Hardell),
2023 (L. Smetanova)
Laudatur MSc thesis, Math Dept, University of Helsinki, 2015 (to T. Talvitie)
Teaching
Communications and Transport Systems, Linköping University
Algorithms, Airlines Logistics, ATM, UTM/UAM, GIS (2012-)
Computer Science, University of Helsinki
Design and Analysis of Algorithms,
Computational Geometry (2009-2011)
Applied Math and Statistics, Stony Brook University
Linear Algebra, Matrix Methods and Models (2001-2004)
Invited talks
Airspace optimizaiton
Trafikverket Automation Day
Automation contributions to ATM
CANSO Safety&Ops Forum'20
Algorithms in the sky: How to design an optimal airspace
Two algorithmic approaches to design of curved approaches
KTH Centre for Sustainable Aviation
Barriers in Networks: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
SoCG'14
Workshop on Geometric Optimization in Wireless Communication and Sensing
Thick Non-Crossing Paths and Minimum-Cost Flows in Polygonal Domains
INFORMS annual meeting
Guest lectures
Motion planning for introverts: Social distancing in various [f/n]orns
CS Dept, U Arizona
Probabilistic methods in UTM safety assessment
Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft
Routing Air Traffic Flows: From Continuous to Discrete and Back
Civil and Env Engineering Dept, UC Berkeley;
CS Dept, U of Arizona;
CS Dept, U of British Columbia;
IBM Watson Research Center, Hawthorne;
Inst of Math, Tampere UT;
Metron Aviation
Algorithms in the sky: How to design an optimal airspace
IT Dept, Uppsala University
Optimal geometric flows via dual programs
Math Dept, Higher School of Economics, Moscow;
Dept of Math and CS, TU Eindhoven
Simple Wriggling is Hard unless you are a Fat Hippo
Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik;
AMS Dept, Stony Brook University
Capacitated Routing in Grid Graphs
CS Dept, Case Western Reserve U;
IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights;
Helsinki Inst for IT;
CS Dept, U of Arizona
Advanced Route Planning and Basic Map Labeling
CS Dept, TU Braunschweig;
Inst of Theoretical Informatics, Karlsruhe IT;
Dept of Math and CS, TU Eindhoven
Non-academic outreach
article in Special issue of OR/MS Today INFORMS magazine
article in Air Traffic Controllers magazine
in showcase by visual Sweden
in experts interview by Infrastructure Channel
in local news by SVT (also here and here)
in global news by Unmanned Airspace
in CANSO news (collaboration within a larger group)
Daily Mail news about our PLoS One paper
video (18min) for CANSO Safety&Ops Forum'20 (held virtually)
TV piece (1.5min) broadcast on SVT1
in video report on Trafikverket Automation Day
My Erdős number is 2
Publications