Mikheil has graduated from Tbilisi State University and obtained his Bachelor degree in Mathematics. He continued Master's study with Erasmus Mundus program and from Vienna University of Technology first he got Master's degree in Computational Logic and then PhD degree in Computer Science. He has spent a year of his post-doc at INRIA saclay Ile-de-france in the Laboratory of Informatics, Ecole Polytechnique. Currently, Mikheil is a chief researcher at the Institute of Applied Mathematics, Tbilisi State University and an associated professor at the International Black Sea University, Tbilisi, Georgia. His research interests include semantic web, automated reasoning, computational logic and artificial intelligence in general. He has more than 20 publications in these areas and participated more than 30 international conferences.
Despite the fact, that Mikheil Rukhaia is a young researcher, he has been involved in several nationally and internationally funded research projects, often as the principal investigator. He is a reviewer of several conferences and journals in his field, is involved in the university teaching in Georgia and works with Bachelor, Master and PhD students.