Sergei Valentinovich Fedorenko (M'01 - SM'07) was born in St.Petersburg, U.S.S.R., in 1967.
He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science and Doctor of Technical Science degree from
St. Petersburg State University of Airspace Instrumentation in 1994 and 2009. Currently he is a Senior Research Fellow/ Professor in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Basic Research/ St. Petersburg School of Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science, National Research University Higher School of Economics, HSE Campus in St.Petersburg, Russia. His research interests include error-correcting codes, decoding algorithms, discrete Fourier transform over finite fields, and communication systems.

The Organizer and Chair of the IEEE Russia, Russia (Siberia), and Russia (Northwest) Joint Sections Information Theory Society Chapter.