Serhii Zinchenko graduated in 1979 from the Kharkov Aviation Institute (now the Aerospace University) with a specialty aircraft engineer. Since 1979 worked in the scientific - production association Hartron, developed software for spacecraft control systems. In 1993 received the Candidate of Technical Sciences degree with a specialty Systems for special purposes, information processing and control.

Currently position - Associate Professor of Ship Handling Department, Head of the Laboratory of Electronic Simulators, Kherson State Maritime Academy, Ukraine. Fields of research interest - systems of automatic, automated control and ship handling.

E-mail: srz56@ukr.net