Gennady Kobzev

Dr. Kobzev started his career 1992 while still a student, working as an Engineer, Postgraduate Student, Lecturer, Head of Division, and Vice-Rector at TUSUR. He graduated from TUSUR University in 1994, and holds a Specialist (Graduate) degree in Industrial Electronics as well as Doctor of Philosophy degree (Candidate of Science in Russian system) in Power Electronics. 1999, he received the Master of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Kansas State University, Manhattan, US.

n 2003 Gennady Kobzev completed MBA-format program at the Russian President Management Training initiative. In 2007, he completed training at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkley ,a program in Technology Entrepreneurship Education.

In 2012—2013, he received training at Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, a program titled New Leaders of Higher Education.

In 2004, he was one of the originators of the Student Business Incubator, a key element in the entrepreneurial infrastructure of TUSUR University designed to promote technology entrepreneurship among students.

In 2012, Dr. Kobzev founded the TUSUR Center of Training for International Students, a new university unit that specializes in recruitment of and pre-university training for international students without any knowledge of the Russian language, and in providing continuous Russian-language training for undergraduate and graduate international students at TUSUR.

In 2021-2023 he was the Head of the TUSUR Project Office for the Priority 2030 grant program.

In 2020-2024 he was the Vice-Rector for International Cooperation at TUSUR. In that capacity he was responsible for internationalization of the University at large. According to the data by leading national and international university rankings, during that period TUSUR ranked among top Russian universities by the share of international students and was among national and regional leaders by level of internationalization in the EECA region.

Research

His research is focused on dynamic process modeling for complex nonlinear power electronic systems, development of theory and methods for nonlinear system analysis at large. GennadyKobzev’s research findings have found application in the Russian and international industry practice.