On February 25, 2026, the next meeting of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine took place.
At the beginning of the meeting, a report was heard from the head of the Department of Cybersecurity and Intelligent Information Technologies of the National Aerospace University "Kharkiv Aviation Institute," corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine Vyacheslav Kharchenko "Scientific foundations, methods of creation and implementation of guaranteed artificial intelligence systems." The report emphasized that the development of theory, methods, and technologies for analysis, evaluation, creation, and use of guaranteed artificial intelligence systems (AIS) for effective management, data processing, ensuring readiness, safety, and resilience of critical information and energy infrastructure objects, intelligent unmanned systems, and complexes of various purposes forms and solves a number of urgent scientific and practical tasks important for the country's security and defense.
At the same time, according to the speaker, threats may arise related to the disruption of reliable and safe functioning of AIS caused by uncertainty in their behavior due to testing on limited sequences of input data and datasets used for training, software-hardware failures, cyberattacks on vulnerabilities, etc. This is especially critical when AI tools are used in systems with a high cost of partial or complete loss of operability. In addition, tasks of substantiating and ensuring compliance with requirements for specific AI characteristics, namely: ethics, explainability, trustworthiness, and others, their definition and ordering considering the complex structure, are important.
Vyacheslav Kharchenko emphasized that the novelty of AIS as objects of reliability and safety assurance necessitates the formation of a conceptual basis for creating guaranteed artificial intelligence systems. The concept of guarantee (the property of a system to perform specified functions that can be reasonably trusted) as a complex property combining faultlessness, readiness, functional safety, cybersecurity, and under certain conditions resilience, is insufficiently widespread in AIS and takes into account their features.
The speaker noted that scientific approaches and practical results obtained at the National Aerospace University "Kharkiv Aviation Institute" in cooperation with industrial and academic partners are aimed at forming and developing the theory and models of guaranteed intelligent computations. In particular, a concept has been formulated for building guaranteed (reliable and safe) distributed and embedded systems and infrastructures from insufficiently reliable and safe components (systems) under the influence of an aggressive physical and information environment with variable parameters. The concept of "large" IT security has been proposed, and the principles of multiversioning, multiparametric adaptation, and multistage controlled degradation for safety-critical systems have been theoretically substantiated. Based on research of multiversion systems and technologies in nuclear energy and aerospace complexes, principles of combined diversity (version, version-structural, or version-temporal redundancy), methods of operational control, reconfiguration, and retraining of backup subsystems to ensure AIS guarantee have been proposed and theoretically substantiated. Strategies for their implementation in AIS using dataset diversity and version-building methods (channels), retraining diversity upon problem detection/obtaining additional datasets, and diversity of means to control operability of individual AIS channels have been defined. A set of mathematical models for evaluating AIS guarantee using multifragment Markov models, various types of fault and cyberattack trees has been developed and studied.
It was separately emphasized that the application areas of the results include safety systems (emergency protection of nuclear reactors), aerospace and unmanned intelligent systems, mobile environmental monitoring and demining systems. Particular attention deserves the proposed system for searching and identifying explosive objects using multisensor intelligent platforms.
In the discussion of the report, the head of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine, Doctor of Technical Sciences Oleksandr Potiy, emphasized the relevance and practical significance of research on the reliability of artificial intelligence systems, which undoubtedly strengthen the capabilities of our state in the field of national security and societal resilience in several important sectors, including cybersecurity and cyber defense.
The General Director of PJSC "Scientific and Production Enterprise "Radiy," Candidate of Technical Sciences Alina Begun, spoke about close cooperation with scientists on creating control safety systems for nuclear energy facilities. Such emergency protection systems have been implemented on reactors in Ukraine and other countries, and their use experience in the complex conditions of war has demonstrated their high safety and resilience.
The Director of the G.E. Pukhov Institute for Modeling in Energy Problems of the NAS of Ukraine, corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine Volodymyr Mokhor, stressed the importance of close cooperation among scientific teams and the need to continue research on guarantee and resilience of artificial intelligence systems, which are becoming an important component of energy infrastructure objects.
The academic secretary of the Informatics Department of the NAS of Ukraine, academician of the NAS of Ukraine Oleksandr Khimich, emphasized that work on developing scientific foundations, methods, and technologies for evaluating and ensuring guarantee and resilience of artificial intelligence systems is one of the priority scientific directions. At the same time, he highlighted critical challenges arising from the rapid development of AIS.
The second report was presented by Professor of the Department of Theoretical Physics named after Professor Ivan Vakarchuk of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine Khrystyna Hnatenko "Quantum programming: new opportunities for solving fundamental problems and prospects for practical application." She emphasized that the relevance of this scientific topic is due to the rapid development of quantum technologies and the need to develop new algorithmic approaches. The use of quantum processors allows studying complex quantum systems and modeling quantum processes. In this regard, fundamental questions are actively studied using quantum computers, including analysis of properties of evolutionary quantum states, determination of energy levels of quantum systems, modeling of quantum processes and systems.
It was separately emphasized that today an important task is to create quantum protocols resistant to errors for calculations on modern noisy quantum processors. Alongside this, the development of algorithms that, with the advancement of technologies, will pave the way to achieving quantum advantage, i.e., solving a wide range of fundamental and applied problems faster and with fewer resource costs compared to classical computations, is also promising.
The report provided examples of significant results already obtained, which have scientific and applied significance and make a substantial contribution to the development of quantum algorithms, quantum information, and related interdisciplinary research areas. Khrystyna Hnatenko also emphasized that entanglement is one of the key resources of quantum technologies. Quantum graph states find wide application, including in quantum error correction algorithms, quantum machine learning, and quantum cryptography, and therefore the obtained results can be used for further development of quantum computing. At the same time, graphs are widely used for modeling complex systems, including social processes, as well as in logistics and economics tasks. In the future, with the development of quantum technologies, the developed algorithms may find practical use in a wide range of applied problems.
At the same time, the speaker noted that computations were carried out via internet access to quantum processors located outside Ukraine. There are currently no quantum computers created in Ukraine, which is due to a number of objective factors, the main one being the high cost of relevant technologies and the complex situation related to martial law.
Khrystyna Hnatenko paid special attention to the creation in 2020 and implementation of the first bachelor's educational program in Ukraine "Quantum Computers and Quantum Programming" at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. In addition, master's programs in quantum information and quantum computing have been opened at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, and V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, which indicates the formation of an educational and scientific environment in Ukraine in the field of quantum technologies.
In the discussion of the report, academic secretary of the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the NAS of Ukraine, academician Mykhailo Bondar, delivered a review of Khrystyna Hnatenko's presentation on behalf of the chief research fellow of the Department of Computer Modeling of Many-Particle Systems of the I.R. Yukhnovsky Institute of Condensed Matter Physics of the NAS of Ukraine, academician of the NAS of Ukraine Ihor Mryglod. It was emphasized that the obtained results have significant scientific and applied importance for the development of quantum information, quantum algorithms, and related interdisciplinary research areas. Prospects for applying the proposed approaches in optimization, logistics, economics, pharmaceuticals, as well as in quantum machine learning, quantum cryptography, and quantum error correction algorithms were indicated.
On behalf of the Department, academician of the NAS of Ukraine Mykhailo Bondar supported the report, emphasized the relevance and prospects of this topic, and noted that the results obtained by the speaker make a substantial contribution to the development of quantum algorithms, quantum information, and related interdisciplinary research areas.
Leading research fellow, head of the quantum optics and quantum information group of the Synergetics Department of the M.M. Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics of the NAS of Ukraine, corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine Andriy Semenov drew attention to the fact that quantum technologies are rapidly developing worldwide today, and the creation of an error-resistant quantum computer is a prospect for the near future. Therefore, training a new generation of specialists and involving Ukrainian research groups in international projects is extremely important.
Senior research fellow of the Kyiv Academic University and the Institute of Mathematics of the NAS of Ukraine, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Danylo Yakymenko supported the presented report and spoke about experience working with quantum computers within cooperation with international organizations. He also emphasized the importance of expanding initiatives that promote youth interest in modern quantum technologies.
Academicians of the NAS of Ukraine Oleksandr Khimich and Vadym Loktiev gave a high assessment of the report and obtained results and emphasized the importance of further development of this research field in Ukraine.
Next, the report "On the digital transformation of the NAS of Ukraine" was presented by the director of the Institute of Software Systems of the NAS of Ukraine, corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine Ihor Sinitsyn. He emphasized that the digital transformation of the NAS of Ukraine is defined as a systemic and imperative process of modernizing management, scientific infrastructure, and mechanisms for creating critical knowledge, the implementation of which is a necessary condition for the effective use of state resources, international integration, and ensuring sustainable development of the national scientific system. The tasks of the NAS of Ukraine Informatization Program for the entire period of its implementation from 2004 to 2024 have been completed, and prerequisites for the digital transformation of the NAS of Ukraine have been created.
At the same time, according to Ihor Sinitsyn, there is a need for proper resource support for effective comprehensive work on building a system of digital solutions in the field of science, including creating a secure electronic environment, providing the necessary digital infrastructure for scientific institutions, raising the level of digital competence, digital transformation of processes and services, as well as intellectualization of data collection and analysis.
Considering that the information infrastructure of the NAS of Ukraine plays a key role in increasing the efficiency of research activities and the competitiveness of the national scientific and educational system, the speaker noted key aspects of the digital transformation of the NAS of Ukraine, including the introduction of an electronic document management system of the NAS of Ukraine; modernization of the information infrastructure protection system of the NAS of Ukraine and its scientific institutions; use of a disaster-resistant data exchange center in Ukraine; development of the Basic Coordination Center and Regional Operations Grid Center; development of the Shared Equipment Center of the SKIT supercomputer complex; implementation of projects for functional support of the NAS of Ukraine – modernization of the RIT NOD and others.
At the end of the meeting, a number of personnel and current issues were considered. In particular, the Presidium of the NAS of Ukraine decided to award the V.I. Vernadsky Gold Medal of the NAS of Ukraine based on the results of the 2025 competition to academician of the NAS of Ukraine Mykola Zhulynskyi and foreign member of the NAS of Ukraine Mark Pavlyshyn (Australia) – for outstanding contribution to the development of Ukrainian literary studies and its establishment abroad. Also adopted were the resolutions "On awarding the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine prizes named after prominent Ukrainian scientists based on the results of the 2025 competition" and "On awarding NAS of Ukraine prizes for young scientists and students for the best scientific works based on the results of the 2025 competition."
Next, the participants of the meeting heard information about the NAS of Ukraine's plan of events related to the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster and the procedure for holding sessions of the General Assembly of the NAS of Ukraine and general assemblies of NAS departments, scheduled for April 21-23, 2026.
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