Los Alamos National Laboratory	Princeton University	Weizmann Institute of Science	Novosibirsk State University
CNLS & T-13 J. R. Oppenheimer Fellow 1999-2001	Department of Physics	Physics of Complex Systems	Department of Physics
Technical Staff Member T-4 (former T-13)	R.H. Dicke Fellow	Ph.D.	B.Sc. , M.Sc.
2002-present	1996-1999	1996	1990

Fields of Interests: Statistical and Mathematical Physics applied to Hydrodynamics, Optics, Information Theory and Computer Science

My CV and Publications List

NEW project: Optimization and Control Theory for Smart Grids

Mini-Course:
Statistical Physics of Algorithms or Belief Propagation and Beyond
12/02-23/2007 [Weizmann] & 03/03-05/2008 [KITP-China] & Sep-Oct/2008 [LIDS-MIT]

My Talks:
Robust Broadcast-Communication Control of Electric Vehicle Charging (10/05/2010)
Loop-based Relaxation in Combinatorial Problems of Graphical Coding (09/2010)
Optimization and Control Theory for Smart Grids (03/2010)
Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics of Currents in Queuing Networks (03/03/2010)
On Dense Graphical Models and Their Potential for Coding (03/01/2010)
Belief Propagation & Beyond (02/19/2010)
Diverse Worlds of Belief Propagation (10/08/2009)
Tracking Particles by Passing Messages between Images (09/22/2009)
Planar and Surface Graphical Models which are Easy (09/01/2009)
Lagrangian Turbulence (05/12/2009)
Planar Graphical Models which are Easy (02/12/2009)
Statistical Inference with Gauges, Loops and Fermions (10/15/2008)
Understanding and Reducing Error-Floors of Graphical Codes (09/30/2008)
Statistical Inference and Loop Calculus in Physics, Computer Science and Information Theory (06/26/2008)
Exactness of Belief Propagation for Some Graphical Models with Loops (01/29/2008)
Three lectures on Loop Calculus Approach to Graphical Models of Statistical Inference (06/18-20/2007)
Physics of Algorithms: Loop Calculus in Information Theory and Statistical Physics (06/04/2007)
Searching for low weight pseudo-codewords (01/30/2007)
Loop Calculus: Exact Inference in terms of Belief Propagation (01/26/2007)
Loop Calculus Improves Belief Propagation (09/2006)
Analyzing and Decoding LDPC codes (09/2006)
Fluctuation theorem and entropy production in statistical mechanics and turbulence (07/2006)
Improving analysis and performance of modern error-correction schemes: a physics approach (04/2006)
Diagnosis of Weaknesses in Modern Error-Correction Codes: Physics Approach (2005)
Stretching and Tumbling of Polymers in a Random flow with Mean Shear (2005)
Effects of Surface Tension on Rayleigh-Taylor Turbulence (2005)
Lagrangian View of Turbulence (2004)
Error-Correction on a tree: An instanton approach (2004)
Phenomenology of Rayleigh-Taylor Turbulence (2003)
Statistical Physics Approach to Evaluation Outage Probabilities in Fiber Optics (2003)
Shedding and Interaction of solitons in imperfect medium (2002)
Lagrangian Phenomenology of Turbulence (2001)
Polymer Stretching (2000)