Professor Skorohod was born in Dnepropetrovsk, Soviet Union in 1951. He received M.S. and Ph.D in electrical engineering from Sevastopol State University, Sevastopol, in 1973 and 1980, respectively.From 1980 to 1985, he was a Senior Researcher with the Department of Technical Cybernetics, Sevastopol State University, from 1985 to 1991, he was the Head of the Laboratory, Sevastopol State University and since 1992, he has been professor in the Department of Informatics and control in Technical systems, Sevastopol State University, Sevastopol, Russia. His interests include control systems, intelligent algorithms, neural networks and fuzzy logic.