Curriculum Vitae   [in pdf]


Education


May 2010 PhD in Applied Mathematics, Brown University, USA
Advisors: George E. Karniadakis & Bruce Caswell
Thesis: Multiscale Modeling of Blood Flow and Soft Matter
May 2007 Master of Science in Applied Mathematics, Brown University, USA
Advisors: George E. Karniadakis & Bruce Caswell
Aug 2004 Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering, Minor in High Performance Computing, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Advisor: Deborah A. Levin
Jun 2002 Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Minor in Computer Science, Novosibirsk State University, Russia
 

Awards and fellowships


Nov 2011 ACM Gordon Bell prize Honorable Mention for special achievement in high performance computing
Jul 2011 People's Choice OASCR Award, SciDAC 2011 Visualization (link to the movie)
Mar 2011 2011 Nicholas Metropolis Award for outstanding doctoral thesis work in computational physics, American Physical Society
Mar 2011 - Feb 2013 Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers
May 2010 The David Gottlieb Memorial Award 2010, excellence in graduate study, Brown University
Sep 2009 - Jan 2010 Simon Ostrach fellowship, Brown University
Sep 2004 - May 2005 Academic fellowship, Brown University
 

Research experience


Feb 2010 - present Postdoc, Institute of Complex Systems and Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Sep 2004 - Jan 2010 Research Assistant, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
Sep 2002 - Aug 2004 Research Assistant, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
 

Research interests


  • blood cells and blood flow modeling in health and disease
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  • rheology and dynamics of complex and biological fluids and suspensions
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  • multiscale modeling bridging atomistic-mesoscopic-continuum scales
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  • mesoscopic simulations and methods
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  • high-performance computing
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Teaching experience


Jan 2009 - May 2009 Teaching Assistant, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
Course: Introduction to Computing Sciences
Sep 2008 - Dec 2008 Teaching Assistant, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
Course: Statistical Inference I
Jan 2007 - May 2007 Teaching Assistant, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
Course: Methods of Applied Mathematics I
Sep 2005 - May 2006 Mathematics Resource Center Tutor, Department of Mathematics, Brown University
 

Invited talks


  • Winter School 2012 - Hierarchical Methods for Dynamics in Complex Molecular Systems, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, March 2012
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  • 6th Symposium of the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, February 2012
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  • Institute of Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, Technical University München, Germany, January 2012
     
  • 2nd International Conference on Particle-Based Methods, Barcelona, Spain, October 2011
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  • CECAM workshop on Mesoscale Hydrodynamic Simulation of Non-Equilibrium and Driven Soft-Matter Systems, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, May 2011
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  • APS March Meeting 2011, Nicholas Metropolis Award Talk for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics, Dallas, TX, USA, March 2011
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  • 42nd IFF Spring School, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, February 2011
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  • 5th International Workshop on Meshfree Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Bonn, Germany, August 2009
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  • SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, August 2008
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Reviews for


  • Biophysical Journal
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  • Microvascular Research
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  • Microcirculation
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  • Annals of Biomedical Engineering
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  • Journal of Computational Physics
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  • Microfluidics and Nanofluidics
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  • Macromolecules
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