Married to Elena Burkova, the couple has a daughter Irina, who also earned the doctoral degree for her contributions to control theory.

Early academic interests of Vladimir Burkov were connected with applied problems of combinatorial optimization;[1][2][3] in the 1960s he contributed to the boom of project scheduling and network planning,[4][5] proposed novel models of resource allocation in organizations[6] and in technical systems,[7] solved several extremal graph problems.

Since late 1960s interests of Vladimir Burkov shift to the studies of specific nature of human being as a controlled object (an agent).

[14][15] The notion of incentive compatibility was independently proposed by Leonid Hurwitz,[16] and later was extended and elaborated by Allan Gibbard,[17] Roger Myerson,[18] and many other researchers.

[28] Professor Dmitry Novikov, corresponding member of Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2008), was elected a director of ICS RAS on October 17, 2016.