Vladimir Polutin

Director, Information Fusion and Real-Time Delivery Lab, HP Labs Russia
St. Petersburg

Biography

Vladimir Polutin is director of the Information Fusion and Real-Time Delivery Lab at HP Labs Russia, the company’s central research and development arm. In this role he is responsible for overseeing research aimed at fulfilling enterprise customers’ demand for timely information that is described in the language of their businesses, processed within their business context, and automatically selected, gathered and transformed from diverse, heterogeneous, distributed sources.

Before joining HP, Polutin was director of the Motorola St. Petersburg Software Center, where he oversaw all software development activities undertaken in St. Petersburg and was instrumental in raising the organization to Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) Level 5, a measure of organizational maturity established by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Under Polutin’s leadership, the St. Petersburg center grew from 65 people to more than 760.

Polutin joined Motorola in Moscow in 1994 as a business and market development manager for the Semiconductor Products Sector. He built a distribution network that enabled the first Motorola chip sales in Russia and also established strong university relationships between Motorola and leading Russian universities. Before Motorola, he worked at Moscow’s leading cellular operator, Vympelcom, as a purchasing and marketing manager.

Polutin holds a Ph.D. in microelectronics and semiconductor technology from the Moscow Institute of Radiotechnology, Electronics and Automation and a master’s degree in radiotechnology and microelectronics from the Moscow Aviation Technology Institute. He also completed an MBA from MCE Brussels Business School and an Executive Program at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business. Polutin has published more than 50 articles and serves on the executive board of the American Chamber of Commerce, St. Petersburg chapter, and is its IT chairman.


Research interests

Information management, microelectronics and semiconductor technology.

Publications

More than 50 articles

Professional Activities

  • Executive board member and IT chairman, American Chamber of Commerce, St. Petersburg chapter