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.