I am a PhD student at Computer Science department at the University of Maryland, CP. I am interested in information visualization, algorithms, and computational biology. With my advisor Carl Kingsford, we are looking for ways to improve understanding of biological data through visualizations.

I started my undergraduate career in Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics (CMC) at Lomonosov Moscow State University. I moved to USA with my mom, sister, and cat during my 3^rd year and tranferred to University of Maryland. As an undergraduate here, I majored in Math and Computer Science and received a B.S. in 2007. I continued studies in computer science and obtained M.S. in 2009. After a short break, I joined Maryland's computer science PhD program in the Fall of 2010.

TA, CMSC423, Fall 2011: Bioinformatic Algorithms, Databases, and Tools
TA, CMSC122, Summer 2009: Web Programming

• VAST Challenge 2011 -- data analysis for task 1 and 3
• Coral -- comparing multiple clusterings
• JazzMap -- exploring collaborations between jazz musicians
• ICE (Fervor) -- analysing spatial and temporal data
• EVC -- crash reports analysis in the state of Maryland
• CateRank -- ranking relationships between categorical variables
• BasketLens -- searching for multiple word groups within a corpus of literary texts
• MatrixViewer -- view matrix data as a heatmap, reorder matrix with spectral or Cuthill-McKee reordering algorithms.