Extensive experience in teaching, research and development, consulting and implementation of numerous engineering projects. A strong mathematical background with special expertise in stochastic image and signal processing, automatic adaptive control, optimization, algorithm development, simulation and mathematical modeling. The current expertise is shifted to a novel prospective class of imaging systems concerning complex-valued wavefield sensing, manipulation and reconstruction, phase imaging, phase retrieval, phase coding with application in such areas as Digital Holography, Optical Metrology, Microscopy, Lensless optical systems, Biology and Medicine.

Published 8 books, number of papers published in last five years: 28 in referred journals and 23 in Proceedings of International Conferences. According to the report of Guide2Research team for 2020, Ranking of Top 1000 Scientists in the field of Computer Science and Electronics, V. Katkovnik is 16th in Finland (http://www.guide2research.com/scientists/FI). Google shows 10219 citations since 2015, h-index 29, i10-index 74.