Former: Dr Anastasiia Vasylchenkova, Dr Morteza Kamalian-Kopae, Dr Pedro J. Freire, Dr Vladislav Neskorniuk

Current: Mr Mohammad Hosseini, Mr Egor Sedov, Mr Geraldo  Gomes, Mr Vladislav Kolbasin, Ms Sasipim Srivallapanondh

Optical communications, optical signal processing, nonlinearity mitigation methods, soliton-based transmission, NFT-based transmission, capacity estimates

Machine learning, deep neural networks, model compression techniques, Bayesian methods

Non-linear integrable systems, soliton theory, Riemann-Hilbert problem, algebro-geometric solutions. Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation (NLSE), nonlinear Fourier transform (NFT, inverse scattering method), perturbation methods

Postgraduate (Ph.D. Student): V.N. Karazin National University, Kharkov, Ukraine, 1999 – 2002.

Junior Research Fellow: B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, Kharkov, Ukraine, 2002 – 2006.

Visiting Fellow: Nonlinear Physics Center, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 2004.

Research Fellow: B.I. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, Kharkov, Ukraine, 2006 – Dec. 2009.

Post-Doctoral Research Associate: Nonlinearity and Complexity Research Group (now – System Analytics Research Institute), Department of Mathematics, Aston University, UK, Jan. 2010 – Sep. 2012.

Research Fellow: Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University, UK, Oct. 2012 – 2018.

Senior Research Fellow: Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University, UK, 2018 - present.

M.Sc. in Theoretical Physics, Kharkov National University, Kharkov, Jul. 1999 (Degree with first class honours). Thesis: ”Internal modes of an easy-plane ferromagnet in vortex configuration.“ Supervisor: Prof. Alexander S. Kovalev.

Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, B.I. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, Kharkov, 2003. Thesis: “Vortex properties in two-dimensional easy-plane ferromagnets.” Supervisor: Prof. Alexander S. Kovalev. Viva date: 8 July, 2003. Awarded: December, 2003.

The course of “Theoretical Mechanics”, V.N. Karazain Kharkov National University, Department of Physics, 1999-2000, Lecturer Assistant.

2018–23: Leverhulme Trust project RPG-2018-063 “Riemann-Hilbert problem and algebro-geometric approach in optical communications.” (PI: Prof. S. Turitsyn), Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University.

2018–20: Marie S. Curie COFUND action MULTIPLY: International Mobility and Training Programme, Co-PI (Dr O. Kotlyar) of the project “Machine learning for nonlinear Fourier-based optical communications, ” Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University.

2018–22: Co-I, Aston WP leader, Horizon 2020 Marie-Curie Innovative Training Network (European Industrial Doctorates) project “Fibre optic nonlinear technologies (FONTE),” (coordinating organisation – Aston University).

2018–20: Marie S. Curie IF Co-PI (Dr M. Pankratova), AIPT, Aston University, project “Optical commununications based on intergability and nonlinear Fourier transform.”

2012-2017- UK EPSRC Programme Grant UNLOC EP/J017582/1, (PIs: Prof. P. Bayvel [UCL], Prof. S. Turitsyn [AIPT]), Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University.

2017-18, 2019-20 PI: Erasmus International Credit Mobliity Programme between AIPT, Aston University, and Kharkov National University (Ukraine), Department of Mathematics, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

2019-21 PI: Erasmus International Credit Mobliity Programme between AIPT, Aston University, and National Technical University «Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute», Kharkiv, Ukraine.

2017-18, 2019-20 PI: Erasmus International Credit Mobliity Programme between AIPT, Aston University, and Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel), Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.

2015 (for 6 months) FP7-IDEAS-ERC ULTRALASER, AIPT, Aston University; PI: Prof. S. Turitsyn.
2010-2012 Post-Doctoral Research Associate sponsored by the EPSRC Advanced Fellowship “Evaluation and harnessing of noise in telecommunication systems”, EP/E055672/1, 2007-2012, principal investigator – Dr S. Derevyanko, SEAS, Department of Mathematics, Aston University.

CO-I: KVA (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) project to support cooperation between Sweden and the former Soviet Union “Nonlinear lattice excitations and Berry phases in anharmonic systems”, 2004–2005: a named researcher. Principal investigators: Prof. M. Johansson (Linkoping University, Sweden), Prof. A.S. Kovalev (Institute for Low Temperature Physics, Ukraine).

CO-I: KVA (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) project to support cooperation between Sweden and the former Soviet Union “Electronic transport and excitation spectrum in nonlinear and stochastic magnetic and biological systems”, 2006: a named researcher. Prof. M. Johansson (Linkoping University, Sweden), Prof. A.S. Kovalev (Institute for Low Temperature Physics, Ukraine).

CO-I: The Royal Society International Joint Project “Pulse-to-soliton conversion and soliton transformations in optical fibres,” between Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, Ukraine, and AIPT, Aston University, UK, 2007–2009: a named researcher. Principal investigators: Prof. S.K. Turitsyn (AIPT, Aston University, UK), Prof. A.S. Kovalev (Institute for Low Temperature Physics, Ukraine).

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