Bio

Educated in Math and CS (PhD); Worked in industry (CG, multimedia, HCI; products, consulting, rapid prototyping) and in academia (robot vision and virtual/mixed reality); Expertise in problem solving, innovative solutions, algorithms and efficient software; Interested at doing R&D in User Experience, VR, Comp. Graphics, Vision, Robotics.

Education

Keldysh Institute for Applied Math, Moscow, Russia

PhD in Computer Science (Robot Vision)

M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

MS in Theoretical Mechanics and Mathematics

Brief Work History

BSquare / Senior Software Engineer, Lead

2017, Trowbridge, UK

Google ATAP / Computer Vision Engineer

2016 - 2017, Mountain View

Samsung Research America / Research Engineer

2009 - 2015, Mountain View

Institute for Creative Technologies / Computer Scientist

2003 - 2009, Marina del Rey, California

PhD Study

  • Keldysh Institute – a math pillar of Soviet space program
  • Vision group of Robotics sector
  • Thesis: Algorithms and Software for Automatic Visual Inspection Systems
  • Automatic Vision System for Final Test of Liquid Crystal Displays (with Sergey Sokolov) In: IEEE Robotics and Automation. Nice, France. 1992

Automation of LCD final inspection

Google ATAP

  • Future product project for Advanced Technology and Projects group
  • Computer Vision R&D
  • Image Stitching
  • Visual Search

Institute for Creative Technologies

  • University affiliated research center funded by Army
  • Computer Scientist at Mixed Reality group
  • Research and software development in virtual and mixed reality

Samsung Research America

  • HCI research for Computer Science Lab
  • Research and prototyping for User Experience Visual Display lab
  • Remote Controls and other TV interactions

Projects

Here are some of the projects I worked on for the last dozen of years.

2013 Remote

2013 Remote

To improve touchpad based remote control we proposed a concept of clickable touchpad surrounded by ridges. It featured smooth TV UI navigation and channel numbers entry by handwriting.

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DRIVE

DRIVE

This novel interaction method allows users to reach behind a display and manipulate virtual content (e.g., AR objects) with their bare hands.

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3DTV UI

3DTV UI

This project demonstrates new media browsing methods with direct bare hand manipulation in a 3D space on a large stereoscopic display with 3D spatial sound.

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Dynamic Light

Dynamic Light Amplification

View-dependent lighting control for Head Mounted Displays.

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Virtual Iraq

Virtual Iraq

Virtual Reality Post Traumatic Stress Disorder therapy application allows to recreate experience and control stress level for PTSD exposure treatment.

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Flatworld

Flatworld

immersive virtual reality environment where users can walk freely among simulated rooms, buildings, and streets.

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Photography

My favorite past-time is travelling and taking pictures.

Pacific coast of USA

Bandon, Oregon.

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London

Charing Cross tube station.

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Borneo

Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.

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San Francisco

Golden gate Bridge.

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Canada

Niagara Falls, Ontario.

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Germany

Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein.

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Scotland

Dornie, Kyle Of Lochalsh.

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Japan

Arashiyama, Kyoto

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