Professional Experience:

• Lecturer in Statistics (Assistant Professor), 2008-2009.
  School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK.

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Education:

• Ph.D. in Statistics, 2003 - 2008.
  Department of Statitics, University of Washington. Advisors: Prof. Julian Besag, Prof. Tilmann Gneiting.
  
• Doctoral student, 1995 - 1998.
  Department of Mathematics and Mechanics
  Saint Petersburg State University, Russia.
  Advisor: Prof. Yu.K. Demjanovich.
• M.S. in Mathematics and Teaching, with distinction, 1990 - 1995.
  Department of Mathematics and Mechanics
  Saint Petersburg State University, Russia.
  Advisor: Prof. Vladimir N. Malozemov.

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Research Projects:

• Radiographic density estimation, 2006 - 2008.
  Jointly with Julian Besag, Stephen Duffy and Ruth Warren.
• Boundary reconstruction in noisy images, 2006 - 2008.
  Department of Statistics, University of Washington. Advisor: Julian Besag
• VIGRE Graduate Fellow, 2006 - 2008.
  Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
• Assessing probabilistic forecasts of multivariate quantities, 2006-2008.
  Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
  Advisor: Tilmann Gneiting.
• Cluster analysis method using ferromagnetic Potts spin model, 2004 - 2006.
  Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
  Jointly with Alejandro Murua, Werner Stuetzle.
• Functional connectivity of phonological processing in normal and dyslexic fathers. 2003 - 2006.
  Department of Radiology, University of Washington.
  Jointly with Todd Richards, Virginia Berninger, Dietmar Cordes.
• Connectivity models of cortical and subcortical systems during drug-induced epileptic seizures, 2003 - 2007.
  Department of Radiology, Univeristy of Washington.
  Jointly with Bart Keogh, Dietmar Cordes.
• Statistical methods for fMRI data analysis, 2002 - 2003.
  Department of Radiology, University of Washington.
  Advisor: Dietmar Cordes.

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Teaching Experience:

• Teaching Assistant.
  Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
  With Paul Sampson (2007) and Peter Hoff (2006).
  Course: Design and Analysis of Experiments.
• Instructor, 2001 - 2002.
  City University, Seattle.
  Courses: College Algebra; Business Statistics.
• Assistant Lecturer, 1994 - 1995.
  St.Petersburg State University, Russia.
  Supervisor: Oleg A. Ivanov.
  Courses: Beginner's Calculus; Geometry.
• Teacher, 1994 - 1995. Academy Gymnasium 45 with special studies of Maths and Physics
  St.Petersburg, Russia.
  Supervisors: Oleg A. Ivanov, Boris M. Bekker.
  Courses: Advanced courses in algebra, calculus, and geometry.

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Honors:

• 2007: Z.W. Birnbaum award for outstanding performance on the General Exam, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
• 2006 - 2008: Research scholarship, NSF VIGRE program, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
• 1997 - 1999: Research scholarship from the Soros foundation, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia.
• 1996 - 1998: Research scholarship from Saint Petersburg Government, Russia.
• 1991 - 1995: Honorable stipend for excellence in studying from Saint Petersburg State University.

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Professional Services and Activities:

• 2008 - 2009: Committee member of the local Avon RSS group.
• 2008: Referee for Environmetrics, IEEE TPAMI, Biostatistics.
• 2006 - 2008: GradStudent lunches organizer with visiting seminar speakers.
• 2006 - 2007: A member of the Distinguished Lecturer Series Committee, NSF VIGRE program.
• 2007: An organizer of StatDay, a departmental event for high school students.
• 2006 - 2007: A member of the The Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences Committee, NSF VIGRE program.
• 2006 (Winter): A grader for the Statistical Inference course by Michael Perlman.
• 2005 - 2007: A tutor at the tutoring center for the undergraduate students, Department of Statistics, UW.
• 1994 - 1996: An organizer of the Advanced Math Studies course for high school students, St. Petersburg, Russia.