On September 19, 2024, Roman Lavrenov, an employee of the Laboratory of Intelligent Robotic Systems (LIRS) of the Institute of Information Technologies and Intelligent Systems (ITIS) of Kazan Federal University (KFU), was awarded the academic title of Associate Professor in the specialty "Robots, mechatronics and robotic systems". During his work at the Intelligent Robotics Department, under the guidance of Roman, new disciplines were created in the Master's profile of "Intelligent Robotics", and more than 50 articles indexed in the Scopus and WoS databases were written.

The decision to give the academic title was published in accordance with Order No.842/nk dated September 19, 2024 of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.