Alexy V. Khrabrov, M.S.E. (CIS) :: Curriculum Vitae

6/1999-3/2002: Software Engineer/Researcher, NEC Research Institute, Princeton, New Jersey (NECI). Industrial research starting with Intermemory project (www.intermemory.net). Implemented transactional foundation for our Synchronizable Databases (see Publications below), leading to a patent (see Patents below). Work on Network Fault Tolerance against random faults and terrorist attacks, and Information Retrieval methods. Working with NECI Web group and UPenn Data Mining group in such areas as Clustering, Collaborative Filtering, Relevance Feedback, applying these to the Web.

9/2000-3/2001 Acting CTO for RSchool, Inc., Pennsauken, New Jersey. Managing IT infrastructure of an educational startup.

4/2000-9/2000: Senior Engineer, NEC Development Center/Eulix Networks, Princeton, New Jersey. Compiler architecture, hardware/software codevelopment for a new telecommunication processor.

10/1998-present: Founder, Suffix Networks, Inc., my personal information technology consulting practice. Providing Linux-based web integration and Internet architecture services. Environments: Unix, C++, Perl, Java, Apache.

9/1996-5/1999: Software Engineer/Researcher, Medical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania. Developing medical application of Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, and Decision Theory. Implementing these technologies via Rapid Application Development (RAD) in Delphi with Windows NT.

10/1994-9/1996: Software Engineer/Researcher, Computer Command and Control Company, Phila., PA. Implementing software understanding technologies and programming language translation, developiong a Fortran/Ada translator. Research in compiler technologies for automated understanding of C++ systems. Hierarchical designs for a code repository, libraries, and development/management processes.

9/1993-12/1994: Teaching and Research Assistant, Thayer School of Engineering, Tuck school of business, and Mathematics & Computer Science Department, Dartmouth College.

9/1996-5/1998: Master of Science in Engineering, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania. Graduate GPA 4.0. Course work includes Database Management Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Probability Theory, Parallel Computing, Exploration Data Analysis, Decision Making, Management of Technology (Wharton), E-commerce conferences and Business Plan competitions (Wharton), Digital Libraries, and others.
Graduate School occupation: Researcher for the Medical Informatics in Decision Making and Artificial Intelligence applications.

9/1993-12/1994: M.S.E. Candidate, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Researcher in Computer Engineering and Computer Science, focusing on software reuse, development, and reliability issues. Research topics: Information Retrieval technology, Intelligent Agents, Evolution of Computer Languages and their applications to software development and management.
Graduate School occupation: Research and Teaching Assistantship in Computer Engineering at Thayer School of Engineering, programming works at Tuck School of Business.

8/1988-8/1993: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia. B.S.E. equivalent in Physics, with significant work for an M.S.E. equivalent in Physics and Computer Science. Academic honors: winner of contests on mathematics, physics, computer science, English, and scientific papers.

Robust Networks. Position Paper, USENIX Technical Conference, San Francisco, 2001.

Synchronizable Databases for the Web. Alexy V. Khrabrov, Sumeet Sobti, Peter N. Yianilos. NECI Technical Report, 2000.

Explanation in Decision-Support Systems. Alexy V. Khrabrov, M.S.E., Curtis Langlotz, M.D., Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania Technical Report, 1997.