1978    Born in the city of Smolensk, Russia.
   
1996    Graduated from the high school with honors.
   
2001    Graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Department of Computer Aided Design, Manufacturing and Engineering, School of Information Sciences, at Ivanovo State Power University, Russia.
   
2004    Defended Candidate of Technical Sciences dissertation "Models and methods of advanced online training operating personnel of Computer Aided Design systems" at Ivanovo State Power University, Russia (advisor Evgeny R. Panteleev).
   
2010    Defended Doctor of Philosophy thesis "Providing Service-Based Personalization in an Adaptive Hypermedia System" at the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh (advisor Peter L. Brusilovsky).
   
2010‑2013    Post Doctoral Fellow at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (advisors Kenneth R. Koedinger and Geoffrey J. Gordon).
   
2013‑2016    Research Scientist at Carnegie Learning, Inc.
   
2016‑2017    Project Scientist at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (advisor Kenneth R. Koedinger).
   
2017‑2020    Senior Research Scientist at the ACTNext, by ACT, Inc.
   
2020‑2021    Senior Software Engineer at ACT, Inc.
   
2021‑2022    Principal ML/AI Engineer at BrainPOP, Inc.
   
2022‑2024    Staff Data Scientist at Chegg, Inc.
   
2023‑present    Founder at Akyn Avtomatika.
   
2025‑present    Technology Lead at myProse, a Carnegie Mellon University startup.

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