Peter Poplavko was born in Kiev, Ukraine, on June 16, 1977. He received the B.Sc. degree from Kiev Polytechnic Institute  and the M. Sc. degree in Information Technology from  Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands  in 1998  and 2001 respectively. Since September he is a Ph.D. student  of Eindhoven University with a topic "On-chip-networks". He participates in a correspondent project at Philips Research Labs in Eindhoven.

His current research interests include interconnection networks and communication for System-on-Chips (mapping communication channels of parallel programs on such  networks), and the design technology for embedded systems in general (modelling/refinement  in System C,  design languages, real-time scheduling and resource management,  etc.).