Sergey Gershtein
E Mail: sg@mplik.ru
Education
- Fall 1995 - present time: The Urals State University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Graduate study in Computer Science
- Specialization: Scientific Visualization.
- Fall 1991 - Summer 1995: The Urals State University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
B.Sc., Mathematics and Computer Science
- Bachelor’s research work "Distributed Computations in Local Area Networks"
- Fall 1994 - Spring 1995: Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
USIA sponsored international exchange program "Freedom Support Act"
- Spent two semesters studying mathematics and computer science in Belmont University, G.P.A. 4.0
Professional experience
- 1995 - present time: Ural-Relcom, Ltd.
System programmer
- System programming under DOS and UNIX, creating Web pages.
- 1994 - present time: The Urals State University Lyceum
Mathematics assistant
- Checking mathematics tests for extra-mural department of Lyceum.
- 1995: The Urals State University
Teacher in Young Programmers’ School
- Giving lectures in computer science for school students every other week.
- 1994 - 1995: Belmont University Computer Services, Nashville, TN, USA
System programmer (internship)
- Worked on different projects, in particular Student Evaluation of Classroom Instruction - scanning forms, producing reports, statistics.
- 1993 - 1994: Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Urals Department of Russian Academy of Science
System programmer in Visual Systems Laboratory
- Worked on visual languagePYTHAGOR project, in particular creating Windows version of the compiler in C++.
- 1994: The Urals State University
Undergraduate research "Application of Fractal Methods for Image Processing"
- Analysis of different dithering and encoding algorithms for color images.
- 1992 - 1993: Uralmontazhnaladka Company
System programmer
- Programming in Pascal for IBM PC: table calculations, printing reports, etc.
- 1992 - 1993
Independent system programming
- Developed and sold via UralSystem company two pieces of system software.
Publication
- Igumnov A., Vasiliadi A., Vorobyev A., Gershtein S., Seledkin P. "Application of Fractal Methods for Image Processing" GraphiCon'94. The 4-th International Conference of Computer Graphics and Visualization. Conference Materials. N. Novgorod: NGASA. 1994. Pages 189-192.
Professional knowledge
- Programming languages:
- C, C++, Pascal, Robotron 1715 (Z80), IBM PC (80i86) and Macintosh (68000) Assemblers, FoxPro & DBase, LISP, AppleScript, PERL, HTML, JavaScript, several non-traditional languages.
- System knowledge:
- Robotron 1715 (CP/M), IBM PC (DOS, Windows, Win95), Macintosh, VAX (VMS), UNIX, ES computers, the Internet
Languages
- Russian - native, fluent English (TOEFL score: 647)
Awards received
- Included into American National Dean's List 1995 edition.
ID# 03479-05-0618.
- Awarded the Soros Fund grant for student achievements in 1995.
- The Second Prize in International Student Olympiad in Informatics, 1991, Athens, Greece.
- The First Diploma in All-Union Student Olympiad in Informatics, 1991, Nalchik, USSR.
- The Third Diploma in All-Union Student Olympiad in Informatics, 1990, Kharkov, USSR.
- Different diplomas in regional and All-Russian computer contests and olympiads.
References are available upon request.