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Education

08/2000-08/2004

Ph.D. (Geography), State University of New York at Buffalo

08/2000-08/2004

Advanced Certificate in Geographic Information Science (IGERT), State University of New York at Buffalo

09/1984-06/1989

M.Sc. Geography (Physical Geography), Diploma with honors, Moscow State University

Professional Interests

• Geographic Information Science and Geospatial Ontology
• Interoperability Standards for Geographic Information Systems
• Parallel Computation Applications for Earth Sciences
• Geographic Visualization
• Environmental Modeling and Environmental Data Processing

Software Experience

Geographic Information Systems

• ArcGIS Engine, ArcGIS, ArcView, ARC/INFO, GRASS, PostgreSQL, ERDAS, AutoCAD

Programming Languages and Tools

• Java, perl, SQL, C/C++, Python, ARC/INFO AML, UNIX shell programming, FORTRAN

Work Experience

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, U.S.A.
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08/2004-present

Research Scientist

Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.
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08/2000-08/2004

Research Assistant, Instructor

Regional Science Institute Inc., Sapporo, Japan
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12/1996-08/2000

Senior Researcher

My major responsibilities were supervising and conducting numerous GIS projects including data processing, software development and spatial analysis.

Other Activities

01/1997-06/2001

company's representative at the Technical Committee of the OpenGIS Consortium (http://www.opengis.org/)

Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
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05/1994-12/1996

Researcher at the research center ``Geography of Hazards and Catastrophes''

Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
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01/1990 - 05/1994

Senior Engineer, Principal GIS Specialist at the Laboratory of General Ecology.

Other Activities

02/91-12/91

a consultant for the Chernobyl commission of the USSR Parliament

05/91-12/91

a consultant for the ``Committee of Public Experts'' (non-government environmental group), participated in the industrial pollution assessment of the city of Ust-Kamenogorsk (Kazakhstan)

fall 1989

a consultant for the USSR State Planning Committee group for environmental impact assessment of Perekop (Crimea) chemical plant

Severtsov Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences
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summer 1988

Laboratory assistant

Laboratory of the Forest Science of the USSR Academy of Sciences
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summer 1987

Field worker

Teaching/Lecturing Experience

spring 2002

Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling -- 4 credit hours course for graduate students at the University at Buffalo, instructor

summer 1994

Geographic information systems in UNIX environment -- practical course for GIS and UNIX newcomers at the Russian Academy of Sciences, author and instructor

Internships and Professional Certificates

04/1992-05/1992

Environmental System Research Institute, (ESRI/Germany), Seminar in ARC/INFO 6.0, TIN erosion, TIN cascading and computerized modeling and mapping of Automated Geographic Data, certif. 5th May 1992

09/1991-10/1991

BFANL (Federal research center for nature conservation and landscape ecology, Bonn, Germany, http://www.bfn.de/) - Studying LANdscape Information System

Languages

English, Russian

My Contribution to Free Software

07/2005

pd-GRASS: Parallel Display for GRASS GIS -- pd-GRASS is a set of shell scripts that allow to distribute display functions of GRASS GIS through the network among several physical monitors in a synchronized manner, http://www.ornl.gov/sci/gist/software/grass/.

07/2000

GISI.pm -- A set of Perl modules to access data in GIS formats and databases, based on the OpenGIS data model, http://gisi-pm.sourceforge.net/

07/1998

GRASS-JNI -- Library of Java classes to access data and functions of GIS GRASS with the help of Java Native Interface, now part of GRASS distribution

Membership in Professional Societies

• Association of American Geographers (since 2000)

Knoxville, TN, September 4, 2005

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