Transfered graduate Ph.D. program student. Defended PhD dissertation in March 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.

Projects of interest:
- 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

Maintenance of FOSS software within the Debian GNU/Linux OS. Participation in ``Experimental Psychology'' Debian project.

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.

[Programming:]

• More than 9 years of experience with software development under Linux OS: C/C++(g++), python, bash/awk/sed, CVS/SVN/git, gdb/pydb/bashdb, valgrind, ddd, gprof, etc

• One of the leading developers of PyMVPA project (http://www.pymvpa.org)

• Knowledge of logic and functional languages: prolog, SML, elisp

• Basic knowledge of Java programming: Java Swing, RMI, JDBC
• Software developer with over 6 years of experience on DOS, Windows 3.x and Windows 9x platforms (Have written a number of small tools and a couple of projects. Refer to ``Work Experience'')

• Experienced with VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) and Inprise Delphi

• Database design. Past working experience with 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, and other techniques

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[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
• Databases: postgresql, mysql

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

• Virtualized hosting: vserver

• Automated systems deployment: FAI (Fully Automated Install of Debian OS)

• 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:]

• Web-designer skills: PHP with HTML, CSS%
• Strong background in graphical design and desktop publishing: LaTeX , GIMP, Visio, OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Office etc

• Excellent knowledge of mathematics and numerical methods for computer aided design. Strong knowledge of MathLab and MathCad. Basic knowledge of S-Plus and R

• Working experience with Electronic Design Automation: PCAD and Visio

[OpenSource:]

• Debian package maintainer (http://people.debian.org/~yoh) of more than 20 packages: fail2ban, lush, keyjnote, pyepl, pyode, etc

• Contributor to fail2ban, GTKPod, djvu, etc

• Cofounder of ExpPsy (Experimental Psychology) Debian packaging project

• Coauthor PyMVPA (Python Multivariate Pattern Analysis framework \ http://www.pymvpa.org)

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

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

• 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

Other presentations of my projects have been presented to research visitors and at local conferences

• Active reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Neural Computation, and Neurocomputing
• Active reviewed under supervision of the advisor for Neuroreport, Neuroimage, NIPS, etc

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Additional references available upon request.