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I am currently a Research Scientist at Amazon Robotics division of Amazon.com. The central theme of my research is network science, with an emphasis on socio-economic and technological networks, studied from the perspectives of analysis, modeling, and control. My work is highly interdisciplinary, spanning applications and methods from computer science, engineering, operations research, microeconomics, and computational social science. The specific research topics I have worked on while being in academia include:
  • competing opinion formation in social networks;
  • strategic formation and resilience of supply chain networks;
  • resilience of online social networks to external control;
  • contagion and systemic risk in financial networks;
  • collective performance of networked teams.
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Before joining Amazon, I was a Warren Center Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, hosted by Rakesh Vohra, George Pappas, and Victor Preciado. Prior to Penn, I graduated with a PhD from the Department of Computer Science of the University of California, Santa Barbara, having worked at Dynamo Lab and been advised by Ambuj K. Singh. Earlier, I had spent several years as a software engineer in industry. I obtained my MSc and BSc degrees in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Tula State University, Russia in 2008 and 2006, respectively, having been advised by Valeriy Ivanov.

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Teaching – UC Santa Barbara

Professional Service

I have served as a reviewer for a number of computer science, engineering, economics, and sociology conferences, journals, and publishers, including KDD'18'17'16'15, WWW'18'17, SDM'17'16, ICDM'16'13, WSDM'16, SIGMOD'14, TKDD'20, TKDE'18'17'15'14, TNSE'18'17, DMKD'19, AAAI'17'16; TAC'20'19'18, Automatica'20'19'18, CDC'19'17, ACC'19'18, ECC'19, Scientific Reports'18; International Economic Review'19; Journal of Mathematical Sociology'20'19'18; and Cambridge University Press'18.

I serve on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Mathematical Sociology ('18-…).

I used to organize the weekly Theory Seminar at the University of Pennsylvania ('18-'20).


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