Dr. Veniamin I. Goldfarb

 is a professor in the production mechanical engineering department of Izhevsk State Technical University, located in Izhevsk, Russia. He’s also the department’s head and is director of the university’s Institute of Mechanics. He specializes in theory and practice of gear design, investigation, and production, and he is also chair of the gearing technical committee of the International Federation for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms.