On 26 of November 2013, at a meeting of the Academic Council there was a message ofSergei Khoruzhnikov, thedean of the Department of Infocommunication Technologies  about  the submission of Professor Arkady Zaslavsky to the rank of Adjunct Professor of the NRU ITMO.

The University’s Academic Council unanimously made a positive decision. Arkady Zaslavsky has been working in the field of computer technology, networking, databases, and distributed systems for more than 35 years. He is the leader of the scientific direction "Managing of semantic data" of the engineering laboratory of the Informatics State Association of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIRO) in Australia, as well as a professor of the University of Technology of Lulea (Sweden).

Professor Zaslavsky has been actively involved in the creation of an international laboratory network technologies in distributed computing systems (NTinDCS) of the NRU ITMO as its foreign co-head.