Education

• 1981 M.S. in Mechanics; Department of Mechanics and Mathematics of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; (Aeromechanics and Gas Dynamics). Thesis: Unsteady flow past a cylinder at small Reynolds numbers.

• 1987 Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics; Department of Mechanics and Mathematics of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. Thesis: Dynamical processes in two-phase disperse media.

• 1992 Sc.D. in Physics and Mathematics; Department of Physics, Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia. Thesis: Applications of asymptotic methods to solution of problems of disperse system dynamics.

Work Experience

• 1981-1983 Research Fellow. Department of Physics and Mathematics, Ufa. USSR Academy of Sciences.
• 1983-1986 Ph.D student. Department of Mechanics and Mathematics of Lomonosov Moscow State University.
• 1987-1993 From Junior to Principal Research Scienetist/Lecturer. Institute for Mechanics of Multiphase Systems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tyumen, Russia.
• 1993-1994 Trainee. University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA.
• 1994-1995 Intern. Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA.
• 1996 Principal Research Scientist/Full Professor, Institute for Problems of Energy Resource Transportation/Bashki
r State University

(Ufa, Russia).

• 1996-2000 Senior Research Scientist, Dynaflow, Inc., Fulton, MD, USA.

2000-current Research Scientist, UMIACS, UMD, College Park, MD, USA.

Some Projects

§ Viscous flow near a cylinder at low Reynolds numbers;

§ Linear acoustics of mono- and polydisperse gas-particle and vapor-droplet systems;

§ Shock waves in polydisperse gas-particle mixtures;

§ Linear acoustics of polydisperse bubbly liquids;

§ Nonlinear waves in polydisperse bubbly liquids;

§ Rectified diffusion and heat transfer to vapor, gas, and vapor-gas bubbles;

§ Self-organization of bubbles in acoustic cavitation;

§ Modeling of bubble dynamics in conditions of hydrate formation;

§ Determination of the accommodation coefficient using vapor/gas bubble dynamics in an acoustic field;

§ Heat and mass transfer to vapor bubbles with translatory motion;

§ Dynamics of bubbles with variable energy;

§ Electrical impedance tomography using boundary element methods;

§ Localization and shape detection of bubbles using pressure measurements;

§ Dynamics of vortex ring bubbles;

§ Computations of the head related transfer function using boundary element methods;

§ Multipole reexpansion method for computation of scattering from N spheres;

§ Multipole translation theory for 3D Helmholtz equation;

§ General framework for the Fast Multipole Methods (FMM);

§ Unwarping images from isometric surfaces with zero Gauss curvature;

§ Computation of acoustical scattering from N spheres using the FMM;

§ Fast multipole method for biharmonic equation in 3D;

§ Data structures and fast algorithms for the radial basis function (RBF) interpolation in 2D and 3D;

§ Fast multipole accelerated boundary element method for Laplace and Helmholtz equations in 3D;

§ 3D translation theory for Maxwell equations using Debye potentials;

§ The RBF interpolation and projections of 3D vector fields.

Teaching

• 1987-1990; Department of Physics, Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia.

General Course on Hydrodynamics and Aeromechanics;

Special course on acoustics of dispersed systems.

• 1987-1993; Department of Physics, Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia.

Special course for Ph.D. students: Introduction to asymptotic methods;

• 1994; Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA.

A series of lectures for ADL research staff: Some new areas of fluid physics;

• 1996; Department of Mathematics; Bashkir State University, Ufa, Russia.

Course: Introduction to bubble dynamics;

• 2002-2006; with Ramani Duraiswami; University of Maryland, MD, USA.

Course: CMSC 878R: Fast Multipole Methods: Fundamentals and Applications, (also listed as AMSC 698R).

 Membership

• Acoustical Society of America (ASA);
• European Mechanics Society (Euromech);
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Awards

• Self-organization of bubbles in acoustic fields; P.I.; Bashkir Academy of Sciences (1996).
• Determination of the accommodation coefficient using vapor/gas bubble dynamics in an acoustic field in microgravity conditions; P.I.; NASA Microgravity Fluid Physics (1998-2000).
• Fast multipole translation algorithms for solution of the 3D Helmholtz equation; P.I. NSF Information Technology Research (2002-2004).
• A system for rapid measurement of the Head Related Transfer Function; Finalist of “Invention of the Year 2002” of the University of Maryland in Information Technology (with Ramani Duraiswami), (2003).
• Implementation of fast multipole methods for solution of Laplace, biharmonic, and Helmholtz equations in three dimensions; Finalist of “Invention of the Year 2005” of the University of Maryland in Information Technology (with Ramani Duraiswami), (2005).