In 2014, Oleg Chertov (born 24.12.1963, Kryvyi Rih) was elected as the Head of the Applied Mathematics Department. He is Doctor of Engineering Sciences (2014) and holds the academic title of Professor (2018). He has extensive experience in project work across various IT companies. Notably, he served as the project manager for the development of the automated system "Census-2001", designed for processing data from the 2001 All-Ukrainian Population Census (over 68 million paper census forms, 7,000 types of output table breakdowns, and more than 200,000 validation rules for output tables). He also led the implementation of a prepaid billing system at the mobile operator now called Vodafone Ukraine (2006-2007), and worked as a World Bank consultant (2009-2013), among other roles.

As of 2024, the total budget of the projects where O. R. Chertov was either the sole project manager or one of the key executives exceeded 5 billion UAH, with all of these projects being successfully implemented.

O. R. Chertov proposed and developed the theory of group anonymity for datasets of various natures (statistical, demographic, sociological, etc.). Under his leadership, the scientific school he established continues to successfully conduct fundamental and applied research in areas such as data science, machine learning, and data mining.

On April 3, 2025, the Applied Mathematics Department welcomed its new head, Danylo Tavrov. He has become the youngest department head in its history, bringing sufficient administrating, academic, and international experience.

Danylo holds graduated from three universities:

• Bachelor's, Master's, and PhD from his home department at Igor Sikorsky KPI;

• Master’s in Economic Analysis from the Kyiv School of Economics;

• Master’s in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley (USA).

In 2015–2016, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA).

At the start of russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Danylo returned from the U.S., believing that his knowledge and efforts should serve his homeland. He follows the principle of Yevhen Chykalenko:
"It is not enough to love Ukraine to the bottom of your heart; you must also love it to the bottom of your wallet."

Despite the challenges of wartime, the Department of Applied Mathematics continues to move forward.

Danylo Tavrov’s research interests include statistics, econometrics, Bayesian data analysis, machine learning, and geometric modeling. He has authored over 50 research papers.