Leonid Sedov

Leonid Sedov, PhD

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  • Location: Norrköping, Sweden
  • Citizenship: Swedish

Personal

Languages

  • English - proficient
  • Swedish - advanced

Expertise

  • Modeling
  • Optimization
  • Simulation
  • Design and analysis of algorithms
  • Software development
  • IT project management
  • UAM (Urban Air Mobility)
  • UTM (Unmanned Traffic Management)

Achievements

Teaching

Teaching

Research publications

P. Hluska, M. Li, T. Polishchuk, V. Polishchuk, L. Sedov Strategic Demand Management in U-Space with RTTA Controls SciTech'25, 2025
X. Olive, P. Le Blaye, L. Sedov, T. Krauth Quantitative air risk assessment for a drone inspection mission along fast-train lines ATM Seminar 2023, 2023
A.M. Veytia, C.A. Badea, J. Ellerbroek, J. Hoekstra, N. Patrinopoulou, I. Daramouskas, V. Lappas, V. Kostopoulos, V. de Vries, J. van Ham, E. Sunil, P. Menendez Ponte Alonso, J. Rodrigo Villazon Terrazas, D. Bereziat, A. Vidosavljevic, L. Sedov Metropolis II: Benefits of Centralised Separation Management in High-Density Urban Airspace SESAR Innovation Days (SID 2022), 2022
N. Patrinopoulou, I. Daramouskas, V. Lappas, V. Kostopoulos, A.M. Veytia, C.A. Badea, J. Ellerbroek, J. Hoekstra, V. de Vries, J. van Ham, E. Sunil, P. Menendez Ponte Alonso, J. Pedrero Gonzalez, D. Bereziat, A. Vidosavljevic, L. Sedov Metropolis II: Investigating the Future Shape of Air Traffic Control in Highly Dense Urban Airspace 2022 30th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), 2022
L. Sedov, V. Polishchuk, T. Maury, M. Ulloa, D. Lykova Qualitative and quantitative risk assessment of urban airspace operations SESAR Innovation Days (SID 2021), 2021
L. Sedov, V. Polishchuk, V. Bulusu Ground risk vs. Efficiency in Urban Drone Operations * ATM Seminar'21, 2021
L. Sedov, V. Polishchuk, V. Acuna Altitude zoning for UTM SESAR Innovation Days (SID 2020), 2020
L. Sedov, A. Krasnochub, V. Polishchuk Modeling quarantine during epidemics by mass-testing with drones PLOS One, 2020
K. A. Buchin, V. Polishchuk, L. Sedov, R. Voronov Geometric secluded paths and planar satisfiability SoCG 2020
V. Duchamp, L. Sedov, V. Polishchuk Density-Adapting Layers towards PBN for UTM ATM Seminar 2019
B. Josefsson, J. Jakobi, A. Papenfuss, T. Polishchuk, C. Schmidt, L. Sedov Identification of Complexity Factors for Remote Towers SESAR Innovation Days (SID 2018)
J. Dahlberg, T. Andersson Granberg , T. Polishchuk, C. Schmidt, L. Sedov Capacity-Driven Automatic Design of Dynamic Aircraft Arrival Routes DASC 2018, London, UK
V. Polishchuk, L. Sedov Gender-aware facility location in multi-gender world FUN'18
L. Sedov, V. Polishchuk Centralized and Distributed UTM in Layered Airspace ICRAT'18
L. Sedov, V. Polishchuk, B. Josefsson Towards Simplified Optimal Sector Splitting SID'17
L. Sedov, V. Polishchuk, V. Bulusu Sampling-based capacity estimation for UTM DASC'17
L. Sedov, V. Polishchuk, V. Bulusu Decentralized self-propagating ground delay for UTM: Capitalizing on domino effect ICNS'17
V. Bulusu, L. Sedov, V. Polishchuk Noise Estimation for future large-scale small UAS Operations NoiseCon'17
V. Bulusu, R. Sengupta, L. Sedov, V. Polishchuk Cooperative and Non-coperative UAS Volumes ICUAS'17
V. Bulusu, R. Sengupta, L. Sedov, V. Polishchuk Capacity estimation for low altitude airspace AIAA Aviation'17
V. Angelakis, A. Efrat, E. Packer, V. Polishchuk, L. Sedov BBTM: New life for old ATM paradigms DASC'16

Work experience and education

Linköping University (Norrköping)

Postdoc

January 2024 - *
  • Quantitative Logistics
  • Main research topic is unmanned aerial traffic management (i.e., drones), with a particular interest in:
    • Capacity estimation
    • Risk estimation and risk-aware route planning
    • Urban Air Mobility (UAM)
    • Very low level airspace design for unmanned operations
    • Vertiport infrastructure
  • Project leader of:
    • Quantitative Risk Assessment for Unmanned Operations (QRA) project (supported by Trafikverket) - 2023-2025
    • Reasonable Time To Act (RTTA) project (supported by Trafikverket) - 2024-2028
    • QRA-XUAM project (supported by Trafikverket) - 2025-2028
  • Design and analysis of algorithms and Computational Geometry
  • Optimization

Linköping University (Norrköping)

PhD student

Sep 2016 - Dec 2023
  • Quantitative Logistics
  • Main supervisor: Valentin Polishchuk
  • Defended PhD in December 2023 (dissertation)
  • Main research topic is unmanned aerial traffic management (i.e., drones)
  • Studied design and analysis of algorithms and Computational Geometry (co-authored a SoCG paper)
  • Developed many traffic simulations on Python
  • Written proposals and got research projects funded
  • Peer-reviewed papers for multiple journals and conferences
  • Teaching:
    • Matlab
    • C++
    • QGIS

Alytics (Moscow)

Python developer

June 2015 - September 2016
  • Development of web service with Django backend and CoffeeScript frontend
  • Working with big data in PostgreSQL
  • Development of OLAP-cube for processing heavy analytical queries from clients

Nowmedia (Moscow)

PHP developer

January 2014 - June 2015

    Support and development of online stores

MIET University (Moscow)

Bachelor and master studies

2011 - 2016
  • Management of IT projects
  • Software Development

Programming languages and technologies

Good knowledge

  • Python
  • PHP
  • Javascript
  • CoffeeScript
  • SQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • GNU/Linux
  • Chef
  • Docker
  • Ansible
  • Fabric
  • Flask
  • Java
  • Matlab

Basic knowledge

(and would like to work professionally)
  • Rust
  • Go
  • Ruby
  • C++
  • Flutter
  • Dart
Please note, that if some particular progamming language, framework, or technology are missing from this list, it does not mean that I am unable to quickly learn them and work with them. Please treat my PhD degree as a proof that I am capable of learning.