Dr. Varuliantor Dear | Advanced Motion Planning | Best Researcher Award

National Research and Innovation Agency of Indonesia | Indonesia

Dr. Varuliantor Dear is a distinguished researcher in the field of telecommunication engineering, currently serving as a senior researcher at the space research center, Badan Riset Dan Inovasi Nasional, Indonesia. He earned his bachelor’s degree in telecommunication engineering from University Krisnadwipayana, followed by a master’s and doctor of philosophy from Institute technology Bandung, specializing in ionospheric communication systems and multi-carrier modulation techniques. With over a decade of experience in space and ionospheric communication research, he previously served as a young researcher at lembaga penerbangan dan antariksa nasional and as an intern researcher at the space earth technology–ingv in Rome, Italy. His scientific contributions focus on the optimization of ionospheric propagation channels and the Advanced Motion Planning, development of reliable telecommunication systems. Dr. Dear has authored 22 research documents, which have collectively received 122 citations across 117 sources, reflecting his growing academic influence and an h-index of 3. he also contributes to the academic community as a reviewer for the spectral journal at Politeknik negeri Jakarta, ensuring research quality in electronics and telecommunication engineering. Through his work, he continues to advance Indonesia’s research excellence in space and telecommunication sciences.

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Featured Publications

Dear, V., Harjosuwito, J., Mardiani, A. S., Purwono, A., Bahar, A., Susanti, I., Priyambada, S. A., & Pradipta, R. (2025, December). Rapid determination of daily ionospheric F-layer critical frequency value using a quick-scale method based on Frequency-Time-Intensity plots. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 259, 106671.

Husin, A., Dear, V., Faturahman, A., Anggarani, S., Mardiani, A. S., Purwono, A., Harjosuwito, J., & Pradipta, R. (2025, January). Simultaneous observation of equatorial plasma bubbles and traveling ionospheric disturbances over Indonesia following the 15 January 2022 Tonga volcano eruption. Space Weather, 23(1), e2024SW004025.

Dear, V., Afero, F., Pradipta, R., Abadi, P., Arifianto, M. S., & Iskandar, I. (2024). Frequency window with homogeneous time of flight (ToF) for near vertical incidence skywave (NVIS) propagation determined based on ionograms. IEEE Access, 12, 3454599.

Dear, V., Arifianto, M. S., Abadi, P., Purnomo, C., Husin, A., Kurniawan, A., & Iskandar, I. S. (2024, June). Ionospheric channel impulse response measurement system for NVIS propagation mode over Java Island based on low-cost SDR platform. Radio Science, 59(6), e2023RS007877.

Husin, A., Dear, V., Faturahman, A., Anggarani, S., Mardiani, A. S., Purwono, A., Harjosuwito, J., & Pradipta, R. (2024, June 13). Simultaneous observation of equatorial plasma bubbles and traveling ionospheric disturbances over Indonesia following the 15 January 2022 Tonga volcano eruption [Preprint]. ESSOAr.

Prof. Elena Strelnikova | Advanced Motion Planning | Best Researcher Award

Anatolii Pidhornyi Institute of Power Machines and Systems NAS of Ukraine | Ukraine

Prof. Elena Strelnikova is a distinguished ukrainian mathematician and professor with a long, productive career in applied analysis, fracture mechanics, boundary element methods, and fluid-structure interaction. Educated at v. n. karazin kharkiv national university , she received her phd in “analysis of 2d contact problems for anisotropic cracked plates” and later her dsc for her work on strength and vibrations of turbo-machine units using the boundary element method. She has held senior and full professorship positions at karazin national university, kharkiv polytechnical institute, and kharkiv national university of radio electronics, among others, and has led research groups and served as a leading researcher at the a. pidhorny institute of power machines and Advanced Motion Planning systems of the national academy of sciences of ukraine. Professor strelnikova’s research is especially known for her deep contributions in singular and hypersingular integral equations, contact problems, cracked plate theory, and fluid-structure coupling. over the course of her career, she has published 71 documents, which have received 602 citations across 309 documents, reflecting an h-index of 17. her scholarship has made a lasting impact on mechanical engineering, structural dynamics, and computational methods in applied mathematics, continuing to influence both theory and application worldwide.

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Featured Publications

Akimov, D., Degtyariov, K., Gnitko, V., Kriutchenko, D., & Strelnikova, E. (2025). Flight stage-dependent vibration characteristics of launch vehicle fuel tanks. In Advances in Aerospace Engineering.

Choudhary, N., Degtyariov, K., Gnitko, V., Kriutchenko, D., & Strelnikova, E. (2025). Liquid vibrations analysis of baffled reservoirs with fuzzy concepts implementation. In Advances in Fluid-Structure Interaction.

Degtyariov, K., Kriutchenko, D., Osypov, I., Sierikova, O., & Strelnikova, E. (2024). Dampers influence on sloshing mitigation in fuel tanks of launch vehicles and reservoirs. In Recent Advances in Aerospace Structures.

Strelnikova, E., Choudhary, N., Degtyariov, K., Kriutchenko, D., & Vierushkin, I. (2024). Boundary element method for hypersingular integral equations: Implementation and applications in potential theory. Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 161, 105999.

Doroshenko, V. O., Stognii, N. P., Zhyla, O. V., Strelnikova, E. A., Sidorov, M. V., & Remayeva, O. O. (2024). Mathematical modeling of exciting a wideband semitransparent antenna with longitudinal slots by a concentrated source. In Proceedings of the IEEE European Workshop on Modern Topics in Signal.