Yury Nikitin was born at 1966 in Izhevsk, Udmurt Republic. He graduated from the Faculty of Instrumentation Engineering of Izhevsk Mechanical Institute on the specialty Computer Engineering in 1988. He received degree of candidate of technical science of the Izhevsk State Technical University (ISTU) in 1994. Yury Nikitin is assoc. prof. of Department of Mechatronic Systems of ISTU. He published over 170 journal and conference papers in his field. He has been the leader of several state projects on “Research, modeling, diagnosing of mechatronic systems”. Yury Nikitin has the honorary title "Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation. Interests: identification of mechatronic systems, diagnosing, modeling, electric motor, robots, automation. Hirsch Index in Scopus is 12, Hirsch Index in Web of Science is 9.