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.).