Positions

• Associate — Assistant Professor at IU Indianapolis, current — July 2019 — August 2013
• the Paul Olum Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, June 2013 — September 2010
• Visiting Scholar, Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, May 2010 — September 2009
• Post–doctoral Research Fellow, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, July 2009 — September 2007

Education

• Ph.D., Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, August 2007, Advisor: Professor Edward B. Saff
  Thesis: Non–Hermitian Orthogonality and Meromorphic Approximation
• M.S., Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, May 2004, Advisor: Professor Edward B. Saff
  Thesis: On Remez–Type Inequalities
• M.S., Mathematics, Dnepropetrovsk National University, Ukraine, July 2001, Advisor: Professor Vitalii Motornyi
  Thesis: Maximum of the Modulus of One Family of Periodic Functions
• B.S., Mathematics, Dnepropetrovsk National University, Ukraine, September 2000 Advisor: Professor Sergei Pichugov
  Thesis: Methods of the Summation of the Fourier Series

Graduate Students

• Hanan Aljubran: «On Random Polynomials Spanned by OPUC», Ph.D., 2020
• Ahmad Barhoumi: «Orthogonal Polynomials on S–Curves Associated with Genus One Surfaces», Ph.D., 2020

On Mathematics

• Open Textbook Initiative by American Institute of Mathematics (AIM)
• SAT — www–based collection of surveys in the area of approximation theory
• a few words by Paul Halmos on research, teaching, writing, speaking, and other topics
• how to give a good 20 minute math talk by Bill Ross
• how to give a good math colloquium talk by John E. McCarthy
• what is so special about complex variables? by Nick Trefethen (SIAM President)
• past and upcoming conferences in approximation theory and the related areas by Andrei Martínez Finkelshtein
• taking notes verbatim and/or taking pictures of the board impedes conceptual understanding of the material