BIOGRAPHY

I was born on the 9-th of September, 1981, Moscow, USSR. From my early years I have been showing great interest in electrical engineering and electronics. In fact, personal computers were not very common in USSR in the mid-80s. My father was working in an electrical-engineering company, and it was he who gave me background in the field. In 1988 I entered a school. In Russian educational system, we studying at school takes about 10 years. It forms our primary and secondary education. There was essentially no opportunity to study high tech at school, so I tried to do it on my own. The crucial political events in Russia in 1991 and 1993 forced our family shift from Moscow to the suburbs, where we lived till 2003. So I was transferred to another school, the event which did not please me much. In 1996 I decided to leave the secondary school and continue my professional education in a technical school in Moscow. Moscow Industry Technical School is where I faced computer programming for the first time: I started studying Basic in 1990, but there was unfortunately no opportunity to complete the course at that time. In the technical school I was primarily interested in programming, though we were studying a lot of computer architecture topics and different hardware stuff. So I was practicing in Assembler, Pascal and C/C++ languages. Having graduated from the technical school in 1999 with honors, I entered the second year in Russian State Technological University straight away. Education at the Information Technologies department involved discrete mathematics fundamentals, software development methodology and scientific approaches application. My first noticeable project was a Digital Signal Processing program, which demonstrated a lot of basic and advanced DSP algorithms, including digital filtering, development of IIR- and FIR-filters, homomorphic processing, etc. This project was developed in accordance with my Bachelor's degree educational program in 2001. Having received a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and Technology with honors, I continued my education. It is worth noting, that at that moment I had already got a job offer to work as a lecturer for third-year students. Hence, since 2001 I have been involved in educational activities in my university by reading lectures on computer architecture and Assembler language. During the years at the university I was also interested in computer graphics and wrote some programs involving texturing, lighting and ray tracing algorithms. My first research work involved software emulation of Intel 8086 processor and was completed in 2002. From this point on I took a great interest in low-level architecture of computer programs; nevertheless, I continued my study of DSP. An improved DSP program capable of carrying out all the calculations in real-time mode was my second valuable project developed in 2004. In addition to a number of useful features, this program allowed to apply low-, high- and band-pass filters to input PCM signals in real time and to produce synchronous PCM output. After graduating from the university in 2004 (I have got an engineer's diploma with honors for no master's education program was available at our faculty at the time), I was offered a position of system programmer in a Russian telecommunications company, where I have gained a wide experience in developing commercial, distributed applications and computer telephony as well. Apart from my commercial work, I hold a position in my university (in 2005 I was promoted to Senior Tutor).