Sofiya Ostrovska (born 1958) is a Ukrainian mathematician interested in probability theory and approximation theory, and known for her research on q-Bernstein polynomials, the q-analogs of the Bernstein polynomials.
She has also published works in computer science concerning software engineering.
[1] Ostrovska was born on 26 September 1958 in Sloviansk, then part of the Soviet Union.
[2] Her parents, Larisa Semenovna Kudina and Iossif Ostrovskii, were both mathematicians, and her younger brother Mikhail Ostrovskii, became a mathematics professor at St. John's University (New York City).
She became a full professor at the İzmir Institute of Technology in 2000, and took her present position at Atılım University in 2001.