PhD degree in Computer Science awarded in May 2009.

MS degree in Computer Science after successfully passing MS qualification examination in August 2003.

Master`s degree in Laser and Optoelectronic Engineering.

Bachelor's degree in Laser and Optoelectronic Engineering with honors.

Graduated with honors.

Working with Dr. James V. Haxby. Projects: visual objects processing, multimodal and multivariate analysis for functional neural data: http://www.pymvpa.org, software deployment and reproducibility in cognitive neuroscience: http://neuro.debian.net.

Projects:
- Predictive decoding of the neural data from different imaging modalities (e.g. EEG, fMRI) to gain better understanding of perception (e.g. auditory) and cognitive (e.g. category specific processing) neuroscientific problems
- Graphical modeling of functional brain organization
- Fusion of multiple functional brain imaging modalities (fMRI/EEG) to gain better understanding and localization of underlying neural activity

Packaging and maintenance of FOSS software within the Debian GNU/Linux OS.

Deployment and maintenance of 27 node high availability AMD Opteron based cluster. % running GNU/Linux Debian OS.

Have been working on deploying ICA (Independent Component Analysis) techniques in processing of MEG (Magnetoencephalography) data which are part of the DreamMon project.

Teaching Assistant for ``Intermediate Programming'' (CS251) class with Prof. David Ackley (CS Department, UNM).

Part-time designer and software developer of the system for diagnostics of mobile segments in vertebral column, which later was utilized in national hospitals of Ukraine.

Part-time software developer of automated system in Planned-Economic Department of Vinnytsia Chemical Plant (Himprom).

The International Scientific Fund Representatives in Ukrainian Studentship Award.

The International Soros Science Educational Program (ISSEP) Studentship Award.

The Academy of Sciences of Ukraine "awarded the work" ``Information-Measuring System With Optical Transformation Biomedical Information''.

"6th place" in ACM South-Eastern European Regional Programming Contest. "1st place" at VSTU.

"4th place" in Physics Olympiad among Colleges and Universities of Ukraine. "1st place" at VSTU.

"1st place" in the Regional Contest for Programming.

"1st place" in Competition among teenagers for the best computer program. Became a "Member of the Ukraine Small Academy of Sciences".

"1st place" for the best solution of physical and mathematical problems in the competition organized by Moscow Physical Engineering Institute.

"3rd place" in the Regional Physics Olympiad.

• Cofounder and core developer of NeuroDebian project: http://neuro.debian.net

• Cofounder and core developer of PyMVPA (Python Multivariate Pattern Analysis): http://www.pymvpa.org

• Contributor to various FOSS projects: http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/yarikoptic

• Debian developer overseeing dozens of packages (http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=yoh) and participating in Debian Science and Debian Med projects.

[Programming:]

• More than 10 years of experience with software development under Linux OS: C/C++(g++), Python, bash/awk/sed, CVS/SVN/git, gdb/pydb/bashdb/ddd, valgrind, gprof, etc.

• Past (1992-2000) working experience in software development on MS DOS, Windows 3.x and Windows 9x platforms: Turbo Pascal, VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), and Inprise Delphi

• Past (2000-2002) experience with Java (Java Swing, RMI, JDBC, Exemplar project:\ http://apsp.onerussian.com), logic and functional languages: prolog, SML, elisp

• Past (2000-2004) working experience in database design: DBE, ODBC, Postgresql, MySQL APIs
• Strong background in object-oriented programming methods and Design Patterns

• Experienced writer of high quality code. Coding practice includes thorough code reviews, detecting defects, careful debugging of own code and code of others, profiling, versioning, unit-, doc- and regression testing, and other techniques

[Administration:]

• Centralized systems configuration: cfengine2

• Linux-based (GNU Debian) network communication and monitoring: TCP/IP, SNMP, IPTables (shorewall), DNS (bind), NAT, NFS, SSH, SMTP (exim v4), Ganglia, NTop, etc.

• Web-server administration: apache/apache2

• Resource management and scheduling of HP/HA computing clusters: torque, maui, SGE

• Virtualized (vserver, VirtualBox) and automated (FAI) deployment solutions

• Hardware: hardware and software RAIDs, network adapters and switches (interface bonding), APCs, desktop or rack-mounted servers; benchmarking, configuration optimization, maintenance and troubleshooting

[Web Design and Others:]

• Basic web-designer skills: HTML, CSS, PHP%
• Strong background in graphical design and desktop publishing: LaTeX , Inkscape, GIMP, OpenOffice.org
• Excellent knowledge of mathematics and numerical methods.

• J.-B. Poline, J.L. Breeze, S.S. Ghosh, K.F. Gorgolewski, Y.O. Halchenko, M. Hanke, C. Haselgrove, K.G. Helmer, D.B. Keator, D.S. Marcus, R.A. Poldrack, Y. Schwartz, J. Ashburner, D.N. Kennedy "Data sharing in neuroimaging research" Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 2012

• A.C. Connolly, J.S. Guntupalli, J. Gors, M. Hanke, Y.O. Halchenko, Y.C. Wu, A. Harve and J.V. Haxby "Representation of biological classes in the human brain" Journal of Neuroscience, 2012

• K. Gorgolewski, C.D. Burns, C. Madison, D. Clark, Y.O. Halchenko, M.L. Waskom and S.S. Ghosh "Nipype: a flexible, lightweight and extensible neuroimaging data processing framework in Python." Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 2011

• M. Hanke and Y.O. Halchenko "Neuroscience runs on GNU/Linux" Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 2011

• J.V. Haxby, J.S. Guntupalli, A.C. Connolly, Y.O. Halchenko, B.R. Conroy, M.I. Gobbini, M. Hanke and P.J. Ramadge "A Common, High-Dimensional Model of the Representational Space in Human Ventral Temporal Cortex" Neuron, 2011

• M. Hanke, Y.O. Halchenko, J.V. Haxby, S. Pollmann "Statistical learning analysis in neuroscience: aiming for transparency" Frontiers in Neuroscience, 4, 2010

• Y.O. Halchenko, M. Hanke "Advancing Neuroimaging Research with Predictive Multivariate Pattern Analysis (MVPA)" The Neuromorphic Engineer, May 2010

• J. Ramsey, S.J. Hanson, C. Hanson, Y.O. Halchenko, R.A. Poldrack, C. Glymour "Six Problems for Causal Inference from fMRI" Neuroimage, 49(2), 2010

• R.A. Poldrack, Y.O. Halchenko, S.J. Hanson "Decoding the large-scale structure of brain function by classifying mental states across individuals" Psychological Science, 2009

• M. Hanke, Y.O. Halchenko, P.B. Sederberg, M. Hughes "The PyMVPA Manual"
  Available online at http://www.pymvpa.org/PyMVPA-Manual.pdf

• M. Hanke, Y.O. Halchenko, P.B. Sederberg, E. Olivetti, I. Frund, J.W. Rieger, C.S. Herrmann, S.J. Hanson, S. Pollmann "PyMVPA: a unifying approach to the analysis of neuroscientific data" Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 3(3), 2009

• M. Hanke, Y.O. Halchenko, P.B. Sederberg, S.J. Hanson, J.V. Haxby, S. Pollmann "PyMVPA: A Python toolbox for multivariate pattern analysis of fMRI data" Neuroinformatics, 7(1):37-53, March 2009

• S.J. Hanson, Y.O. Halchenko "Brain reading using full brain Support Vector Machines for object recognition: There is no face identification area" Neural Computation, 20(2):486-503, February 2008

• S.J. Hanson, C. Hanson, Y.O. Halchenko, T. Matsuka, A. Zaimi "Bottom-up and top-down brain functional connectivity underlying comprehension of everyday visual action" Brain Structure and Function, 212(3-4):231-44, 2007

• S.J. Hanson, D. Rebbechi, C. Hanson, Y.O. Halchenko "Dense mode clustering in brain maps" Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 25(9):1249-1262, 2007

• Y.O. Halchenko, S.J. Hanson, B.A. Pearlmutter "Multimodal Integration: fMRI, MRI, EEG, MEG (Chapter 8)" Advanced Image Processing in Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Dekker, book series on Signal Processing and Communications, p. 223-265 ISBN 0824725425, 2005

• Y.O. Halchenko, B.A. Pearlmutter, S.J. Hanson, A. Zaimi "Fusion of Functional Brain Imaging Modalities via Linear Programming" Presented at NFSI-2003. Chiety Italy September 2003

• L.I. Timchenko, Y.F. Kutaev, A.A. Gertsiy, Y.O. Halchenko "Method for image coordinate definition on extended laser paths" Optoelectronic and Hybrid Optical/Digital Systems for Image and Signal Processing, Published June 2000, Volume 4148-19

• L.I. Timchenko, Y.F. Kutaev, A.A. Gertsiy, Y.O. Halchenko, M.A. Grudin "Approach to parallel-hierarchical network learning for real-time image sequence recognition" The International Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Advanced Manufacturing, 19-22 September 1999, Massachusetts USA. Volume 3836-09

• L.I. Timchenco, Y. Kutaev, A. Gertsiy, L. Zagoruiko, Y.O. Halchenko "Pre-processing of extended laser path images" Industrial Lasers and Inspection, EOS/SPIE International Symposium. Munich, 14-18 June 1999. Volume 3827-26

• L.I. Tymchenko, J. Scorukova, S. Markov, Y.O. Halchenko "Image Segmentation on the basis of spatial connected features" Visnyk VSTU, No. 4, pp. 39-43, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 1998

• T.B. Martinyuk, A.V. Kogemiako, Y.O. Halchenko "The model of associative processor for numerical data sorting" Visnyk VSTU. No. 2, pp. 19-23, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 1997

• L.I. Tymchenko, J. Scorukova, J. Kutaev, S. Markov, T. Martynuk, Y.O. Halchenko "Method Spatial Connected Segmentation of Images" The Third All-Ukrainian International Conference Ukrobraz, Kijiv, Ukraine, November 26-30, 1996

• Y.O. Halchenko, M. Hanke "Environments for efficient contemporary research in neuroimaging: PyMVPA and NeuroDebian" UPENN, Philadelphia PA, USA 2012

• Y.O. Halchenko, M. Hanke and J.V. Haxby "Multivariate analysis strategies of neuroimaging data in PyMVPA" Annual Meeting of Society for NeuroScience, Washington DC, USA 2011

• Y.O. Halchenko and M. Hanke "The virtues and sins of PyMVPA" EuroScipy satellite ``Python in Neuroscience'', Paris, France, 2011

• Y.O. Halchenko "\pi's in Debian or Scientific Debian: NumPy, SciPy and beyond" EuroScipy, Paris, France, 2011 http://www.euroscipy.org/talk/4379

• M. Hanke and Y.O. Halchenko "Debian: The ultimate platform for neuroimaging research" DebConf10, New York, USA 2010, http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/571.en.html

• M. Hanke, Y.O. Halchenko and J.V. Haxby "NeuroDebian: versatile platform for brain imaging research" Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, 2011

• M. Hanke, Y.O. Halchenko, J.S.C. Guntupalli, A.C. Connolly and J.V. Haxby "Unsupervised brain parcellation from functional neuroimaging data" Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2011

• S.V. Fogelson, P.J. Kohler, M. Hanke, Y.O. Halchenko, J.V. Haxby, R.H. Granger and P.U. Tse "STMVPA: Spatiotemporal multivariate pattern analysis permits fine- grained visual categorization" Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, 2011

• Y.O. Halchenko, M. Hanke, J.V. Haxby, S. Pollmann, R.D. Raizada "Having trouble getting your Nature paper? Maybe you are not using the right tools?" Annual Meeting of Society for NeuroScience, USA 2011

• Active reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Neural Computation, Neuroimage, and Neurocomputing
• Active mentor for new Debian contributors
• Active member of the INCF ``Standards for Datasharing'' task force

Prof. Barak A. Pearlmutter
Hamilton Institute
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Maynooth, Co. Kildare,
Ireland
Tel: +353 1 708-6394
Fax: +353 1 708-6269
barak{a}cs.may.ie
Prof. Stephen J. Hanson
Psychology Department
Rutgers University,
Smith Hall, 101 Warren Str,
Newark, NJ 07102-1811
Tel: +1 973 353-5440
Fax: +1 973 353-1171
jose{a}psychology.rutgers.edu Prof. James V. Haxby
Director of Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Dartmouth College,
Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207
Hanover, NH 03755
Tel: +1 603 646-3181
Fax: +1 603 646-1419
james.v.haxby{a}dartmouth.edu