Yuri Demchenko Senior Researcher Complex Cyber Infrastructure Research Group INstitute of INfomratics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam E-mail: y.demchenko-at-uva<dot>nl
Russia's War against Ukraine: Address to Computer Science and Software Engineering Students, Researchers and Academicians The homepage of Yuri Demchenko, Internaut, Teacher, Philosopher, Artist, Explorer, Traveller, Consultant and Expert

GreenDIGIT & RI Sustainability Architecture Framework (AF4RS) - EDISON Data Science Framework (EDSF) - TechnoCarpentry Education & Training - Health & Natural Healing

Main research areas: Environmental Sustainability of Digtial Infrastructures, Big Data Architecture, Big Data Security, Cloud and Intercloud Architecture, AAA architecture, Security and Trust in dynamically provisioned services, Instructional methodologies and education on Cloud Computing and Big Data

• Publications, technical reports and analytical works, works in progress, presentations and tutorials
• Current affiliation: Senior Researcher at the Complex Cyber Infrastructures (CCI) group at the University of Amsterdam
  • Historical information about SNE can be found at the Cees de Laat's homepage
• Short version of CV and  Short Bio sketch
  • LinkedIn personal profile
  • Google Scholar Citation page (h-index = 33, h10-index = 82)
  • ResearchGate personal page: RG score 18.46; Research items - 146, Reads - 65K+ Citations - 2312
  • Publications listed in DBLP, ResearchGate
  • Personal ORCID: 0000-0001-7474-9506 (http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7474-9506)
    
  • Scopus Author ID 8904483500
  • Candidate of Science (PhD) from the National Technical Uniiversity of Ukraine "Kiev Polytechnic Institute"
    Thesis "System Oriented Broadband Precision Generators" ("Системно-ориентированные широко-полосные многозначные меры переменного напряжения" - scanned to PDF 30MB) and related publications.

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• Theosophy and Philosophy of the Modern Information Society - Finding your own way
  What is the philosophy challenge of our Information Age and emerging Knowledge Based Society: World without frontiers and increasing virtuality of human existence? - Blurring reality of information space as a new reality. - Supramental channelling and interaction. 
  • Theosophy and Esoteric Methodology for modern Science. Presentation (PDF) at the International Online Forum on August 12, 2025, dedicated to the 194-th anniversary of the birth of Helena Petrivna Blavatsky (HPB)
  • Resources: Theosophy and Secret Doctrine by Helen Blavatsky
    • The Theosophical Society - Online literture
  • Raja Yoga Education - How to actvate connection with the educated soul during childgrowing up stages
    • Roja-Yoga opvoeding van het Reincairnerende Kind, Theosophical Society Workshop, 30 - 31 May 2015, Den Haag - Proceedings - Materials (PDF - Working scanned file 43MB)
  • Formation of a new philosophy (Integral) - New Paradigms of Information Age and Knowledge Based Society
  • New Age Philosophy Foundation - Lecture course thesis (English, Russian, Ukrainian)

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• GreenDIGIT Project: Greening Future Digital Research Infrastructures (INFRASUPP-4-2015, Grant 101131207)

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• EDISON Project: Building the Data Science Profession (INFRASUPP-4-2015, Grant Agreement n. 675419, 2015-2017 )
• EDISON Community Initiative (since 2017), GitHub Home
• EDISON Data Science Framework (EDSF) Release 4, 31 December 2022 - Information
  • Part 1 - Data Science Competence Framework (CF-DS) - Github
  • Part 2 - Data Science Body of Knowledge (DS-BoK) - Github 
  • Part 3 - Data Science Model Curriculum (MC-DS)  - Github 
  • Part 4 - Data Science Professional Profiles (DSP Profiles)  - Github 
  • Part 5 - EDSF Use Cases and Applications (EDSF-UCA) Github
• EDISON Project value contribution and legacy - Official slides deck 2021 (PDF) - PPT is provided on demand
• EDISON Project legacy:
  • Education and training for Data Science and data related skills: Roadmap Recommendations (2017) - Part of the project deliverable D4.4
  • First EDISON Champions Conference (13-14 July 2016, New Forest, Brockenhurst, UK)
  • Second EDISON Champions Conference (15-16 March 2017, Madrid, Spain)
  • Third EDISON Champions Conference (19-20 June 2017, Warsaw, Poland) 
• EDISON Day In Denmark. Workshop EDISON Data Science Framework (EDSF): Facilitating Data Science Curricula Development and organisational capacity building.DEIC - Danish e-Infrastructure Cooperation, 31 May 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark.  Programme. 

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• DevOps and Cloud Powered Software Development
  • DevOps course for SE masters at UvA (term 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021)
  • DevOps Introduction: DevOps Foundation and Concepts: Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Agile, Scrum, Sprint, others (PDF)
  • DTW2019 Paper: Teaching DevOps and Cloud based Software Engineering in University Curricula (PDF)

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• TECHNOCARPENTRY: TechnoCarpentry Project: Open Source Educational materials on key technology topics (Creative Common 4.0 CC BY). Available courses:
  • Techno Carpentry Cloud Computing Tutorials 2016 (Includes 33 tutorials with Hands-on Labs - Content  - Resources)
  • Big Data and Data Analytics: Lecture course (Includes 8 Seminars with Discussion Questions and Project - Content - Resources)
  • Cloud Computing Engineering  (Includes 8 Seminars with Discussion Questions and Project - Content - Resources)
  • Coming soon: Cloud Computing Security and Compliance: Evaluating Security and Compliance of the Outsourced Cloud based Big Data Infrastructures (Content - Resources)
  • Coming soon: Research Data Management (Content - Resources)

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• Data Science and Big Data related cources
  • Big Data Infrastructure and Technologies for Data Analytics (BDIT4DA).
    • Delivered at part of Data Science Master at NTUU "Kiev Polytechnic Institute", April-May 2019, Kiev. Programme.
    • Delivered at the Data Science School, Kiev Academic University, 18-19 October 2018, Kiev. Programme.
      
  • Data Science Foundation. Programme.
    • Delivered at Data Science Master at the Perugia University, May 2017.
  • Data Science, Data Mining, Machine Learning - Recommended books 2015-2018
• Cources and lectures on Cloud Computing and Big Data
• Instructional and methodological publications 
  • Instructional Model for Building effective Big Data Curricula for Online and Campus Education
  • Experience of Profiling Curricula on Cloud Computing Technologies and Engineering for Different Target Groups
  • New Instructional Models for Building Effective Curricula on Cloud Computing Technologies and Engineering
  • Early publications (1996-2001) 
    • New Paradigm of Education: Learning from the Internet - Contributing to the Internet
    • Cooperative and Contributive Learning in Professional Education in Condition of Emerging Technologies
• Educational and Training courses - Support and development
  • Security Engineering (SN) supporting materials
  • Development of the Instructional methodology and educational materials for professional education and training on Networking Information Technologies and Internet at CAD Dept. in Kiev Polytechnic Institute (1996-1998)

Conferences and workshops

• Special Session of GDPR Sceptics at APC2018, 8-10 October 2018, Amsterdam
  • Session presenttaions
• Conferences and Workshops (2004-2007):
• RELARN2007,  RELARN2006,  RELARN2005,  RELARN2004 ,  RELARN2003  
• Virtual Silk Highway Computer Security Workshop 2004 (CSW2004) - mirror site for the http://csw2004.arena.am/

• Big Data Infrastructure Issues in Big Data Science and Technology (in progress: check publications page)
• Inter-Cloud Architecture Framework for Interoperability and Integration (in progress: check publications page)
• AAAuthreach - Generic Authorisation, Authentication, Accounting framework for Resource Provisioning (GAAA-P)
• Related XML Security and Web Services technologies (2009)
• aaauthreach.org package for distributed AuthZ and Policy enforcement services (2009)
• Incident Object Description and Exchange Format (IETF INCH WG - concluded)
• RFC 5070, The Incident Object Description Exchange Format, by Danyliw R., Meijer J.J.,  Demchenko Y. 
• RFC 3067 TERENA's Incident Object Description and Exchange Format Requirements

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• UAZone.org Development Server - Promoting Ukrainian Brands and Brains
• NetUA Internet Zone  - Information about Internet development in Ukraine 1997-2002
• Career and Self-Development
• ESL for Russian/Ukrainian speaking people
• Photo Gallery: Special projects: Laying down dark fibre in Amsterdam/NL
• Multilingual Applications in WWW/Internet - Reference website
(1999)
• RFC 2319 - Registration of a Ukrainian Cyrillic Character Set KOI8-U
• Previous projects
• U'Pavilion - Ukrainian Internet Pavilion. WWW Server about Ukrainian Historical and Cultural Heritage (1997)

• Photo Gallery - Personal travelling and worldseeing collection
• Health and natural healing
  • Macrobiotics - Self-healing natural dietary system (local)
  • Herbal medicine - Natural health system (local)
  • Esoteric Physical and Spiritual Energy systems