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Employment and Research Experience

Associate professor, General Physics Department, Nizhny Novgorod State University (May, 1997 - June, 2000).

Classes taught: general physics subjects (mechanics, thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, oscillations and waves theory, electromagnetism, optics) and methods of data processing (time-series analysis / filtering; discrete Fourier transformation; wavelet transformation; data compression; linear and non-linear algorithms of image restoration).

Research interests: wave propagation through inhomogeneous media, restoration of optical wave fronts degraded by turbulence, digital image and signal processing.

Assistant professor, General Physics Department, Nizhny Novgorod State University (Sept. 1992 - May, 1997).

Engineer-researcher in Nizhny Novgorod University, General Physics Department (1985-1992).

Education and Degrees

Kandidat nauk in Physics and Mathematics ( Ph.D. equivalent degree in Russia / Ukraine / former Soviet Union )  
Dissertation title "Interferometric methods of observation of small angular size incoherent objects through the Earth's atmosphere" (Nizhny Novgorod State University, Russia)

1985    Graduated with distinction from Nizhny Novgorod State University (Russia) in specialty Radiophysics and Electronics