Yaroslav O. Halchenko __________________________________________________________________ Mailing Address: PBS Department, Dartmouth 419 Moore Hall Hinman Box 6207 Hanover, NH 03755 USA Internet Addresses: [1]career{a}onerussian.com [2]http://www.onerussian.com [3]http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik __________________________________________________________________ Education Computer Science Dept,\ NJIT (NJ Institute of Technology) Ph.D. student. GPA 4.00 Newark NJ, USA January 2003 - May 2009 Transfered graduate Ph.D. program student. Defended PhD dissertation in March 2009. Computer Science Dept,\ UNM (University of New Mexico) MS student. GPA 4.00 Albuquerque NM, USA January 2000 - December 2003 MS degree in Computer Science after successfully passing MS qualification examination in August 2003. Computer Systems Dept,\ VSTU (Vinnytsia State Technical) Graduate student Vinnytsia, Ukraine 1998 - 1999 Master`s degree in Laser and Optoelectronic Engineering. Computer Systems Dept, VSTU Student Vinnytsia, Ukraine 1994 - 1998 Bachelor's degree in Laser and Optoelectronic Engineering with honors. Physical and Mathematical Gymnasia No.17 High School Student Vinnytsia, Ukraine 1992 - 1994 Graduated with honors. Physical and Mathematical Correspondence School High School Student Moscow Physical Engineering Institute 1991 - 1994 Aerospace Correspondence School ``Soyuz'' High School Student Moscow Physical Engineering Institute 1991 - 1992 __________________________________________________________________ Work Experience Dept of Psychological and Brain Sciences,\ Dartmouth College Postdoctoral Fellow Hanover NH, USA May 2009 - present Working with Dr. James V. Haxby. Projects: visual objects processing, multimodal and multivariate analysis for functional neural data. Mind/Brain RUMBA Laboratory [4]http://www.rumba.rutgers.edu Research Assistant Psych. Department, Rutgers-Newark NJ., USA August 2002 - May 2009 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 Open Source Community (Debian GNU/Linux) [5]http://people.debian.org/~yoh Debian Developer December 2005 - present Maintenance of FOSS software within the Debian GNU/Linux OS. Participation in ``Experimental Psychology'' Debian project. Rutgers-Newark [6]http://www.rumba.rutgers.edu/ravana.php GNU/Linux Cluster System Administrator Psych. Department, Rutgers-Newark NJ., USA September 2005 - present Deployment and maintenance of 27 node high availability AMD Opteron based cluster. % running GNU/Linux Debian OS. Brain and Computation Laboratory [7]http://www-bcl.cs.unm.edu Research Assistant CS Dept., UNM Albuquerque NM, USA June 2000 - July 2002 Have been working on deploying ICA (Independent Component Analysis) techniques in processing of MEG (Magnetoencephalography) data which are part of the DreamMon project. CS Dept., UNM Teaching Assistant Albuquerque NM, USA January 2000 - May 2000 Teaching Assistant for ``Intermediate Programming'' (CS251) class with Prof. David Ackley (CS Department, UNM). VSTU Research Assistant Vinnitsya, Ukraine 1993 - 1997 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. Liana Company Software Developer Vinnitsya, Ukraine April 1996 - October 1997 Part-time software developer of automated system in Planned-Economic Department of Vinnytsia Chemical Plant (Himprom). __________________________________________________________________ Scholarship Awards 1998-1999 The International Scientific Fund Representatives in Ukrainian Studentship Award. 1995-1996 The International Soros Science Educational Program (ISSEP) Studentship Award. __________________________________________________________________ Main Awards and Honors Ukraine 1996 The Academy of Sciences of Ukraine "awarded the work" ``Information-Measuring System With Optical Transformation Biomedical Information''. Bucharest, Romania October 1995 "6th place" in ACM South-Eastern European Regional Programming Contest. "1st place" at VSTU. Kharkiv, Ukraine April 1995 "4th place" in Physics Olympiad among Colleges and Universities of Ukraine. "1st place" at VSTU. Vinnitsya, Ukraine 1994 "1st place" in the Regional Contest for Programming. Ukraine 1994 "1st place" in Competition among teenagers for the best computer program. Became a "Member of the Ukraine Small Academy of Sciences". Vinnitsya, Ukraine 1993 "1st place" for the best solution of physical and mathematical problems in the competition organized by Moscow Physical Engineering Institute. Vinnitsya, Ukraine 1993 "3rd place" in the Regional Physics Olympiad. __________________________________________________________________ Computer Skills [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 ([8]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 \pagebreak [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 ([9]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 \ [10]http://www.pymvpa.org) __________________________________________________________________ Selected Publications/Presentations * 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 [11]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 __________________________________________________________________ Professional Activities * Active reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Neural Computation, and Neurocomputing * Active reviewed under supervision of the advisor for Neuroreport, Neuroimage, NIPS, etc __________________________________________________________________ Languages Fluent in Russian, Ukrainian and English. \pagebreak __________________________________________________________________ References Prof Barak A. Pearlmutter, Ph.D. Hamilton Institute National University of Ireland, Maynooth Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland Tel: +353 1 708-6394 Fax: +353 1 708-6269 [12]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 [13]jose{a}psychology.rutgers.edu Additional references available upon request. References 1. mailto:career{a}onerussian.com 2. http://www.onerussian.com/ 3. http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik 4. http://www.rumba.rutgers.edu/ 5. http://people.debian.org/~yoh 6. http://www.rumba.rutgers.edu/ravana.php 7. http://www-bcl.cs.unm.edu/ 8. http://www.pymvpa.org/ 9. http://people.debian.org/~yoh 10. http://www.pymvpa.org/ 11. http://www.pymvpa.org/PyMVPA-Manual.pdf 12. mailto:barak{a}cs.may.ie 13. mailto:jose{a}psychology.rutgers.edu