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CURRICULUM VITAE
December 2007

Name: Kukush
First name: Oleksandr
Sex: Male
Office address: Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Volodymyrska st. 60, 01033, Kyiv, Ukraine
Permanent address: Reitarska st. 21, 25, 01034, Kyiv, Ukraine
E-mail: Alexander_Kukush@univ.kiev.ua
URL: http://www.mechmat.univ.kiev.ua/eng/ppages/Kukush/index.htm
Phone: +38044-2590591 (office) and +38044-2792634 (home)
Fax: +38044-2590392
Date and place of birth: 23 May 1957, Kyiv, USSR
Actual nationality: Ukraine
Married to Maria Rozhkova, 1982

AWARDS

  • Taras Shevchenko Award for a cycle of papers on errors-in-variables regression models, according to decision of Research Council of from 06.02.2006, order of rector of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University N 123-23 from 27.02.2006.
  • Elected member of the International Statistical Institute, starting from 2004.
  • Gratitude from the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma for the contribution to development of national education, November 2004.
  • Gratitude from the rector of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University for conscientious work at the University, May 2007.
  • A nominee of Marquis Who's Who in the World, starting from the 11th edition, 1993-1994.

DEGREES

-Professor (equivalent to Full Professor), 2002, Ministry of Education and Science, Kyiv, Ukraine.
-Docent (equivalent to Associate Professor), 1995, Kyiv National University.
-Doctor of Science in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics, 1995, Institute of Mathematics of National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv.
-Candidate of Science (Ph.D.) in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics, 1982, Kyiv National University.
-MS in Mathematics, with honor, 1979, Kyiv National University.

KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGES

English (fluent), Russian, and Ukrainian.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

-1998-Present: National University, Mechanical and Mathematical Department (Kyiv, Ukraine). Full Professor.
-2001-Present: National Aviation University (Kyiv, Ukraine). Senior researcher (pluralized work).
-2004 (June-August) and 2005 (February-August and November-December): Department of Applied Economics, K.U.Leuven, Belgium (full-time senior postdoctoral fellowship from the Academic Authorities of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven).
-2002 (June-August), and 2001 (March-August): Department of Electronic Engineering, K.U.Leuven, Belgium (pluralized work, postdoctoral research fellowship).
-2000 (June-December): University of Munich, Institute of Statistics (Munich, Germany). Assistant Professor (pluralized work, SFB 386).
-1998-1999: Academy of Foreign Trade (Kyiv, Ukraine). Full Professor (pluralized work).
-1993-1998: National University, Mechanical and Mathematical Department (Kyiv). Associate Professor.
-1987-1993: National University, Mechanical and Mathematical Department (Kyiv). Assistant Professor.
-1979-1987: National University, Mechanical and Mathematical Department (Kyiv, Ukraine). Researcher, senior researcher.
-1974-1979: National University, Mechanical and Mathematical Department (Kyiv). Student.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Kyiv University (1987-Present).
Obligatory course developed and taught:

  • Calculus 1 and 2.
  • Theory of measure and of integral.
  • Functional analysis and integral equations.
  • Statistical methods in non-life insurance (CT6) - lectures for actuarial students.
Special course developed and taught:
  • Errors-in-variables regression models.
  • Theory of optimal strategies in European and American options.
  • Spline functions in statistics.
  • Stochastic calculus in vector spaces.
  • Gaussian measures and Gaussian random vectors in Hilbert space.
  • Compact sets in spaces of sequences.
  • Popular mathematics.
Academy of Foreign Trade, Kyiv (1998—1999).
Developed and taught an obligatory course on higher mathematics.
Lyceum of Natural Sciences N 145, Kyiv (1992—1995).
Developed and taught special course on popular mathematics.
City of Visaginas, Lithuania (1995)
Developed and taught a course on combinatorics, probability theory, and statistics for school teachers.

SUPERVISION EXPERIENCE

  • Supervised Anna Borovitskaya, who defended her Ph.D. thesis in December 2005 in Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University.
  • Jointly with Prof. Dmitrii Silvestrov, Sweden, co-supervised Henrik J?nsson, he defended his Ph.D. thesis in December 2005 in Malardalen University, Vasteras, Sweden.
  • 4 postgraduate students: Anastasiya Rzhevska (by correspondence) and Olena Usoltseva, first year of study; Andrii Malenko and Olena Gontar, third year of study.
  • A postgraduate student in 2004-2007 (Mariya Polekha).
  • A postgraduate student in 2002-2006 (Galyna Repetats'ka).
  • A postgraduate student in 2002-2005 (Sergiy Shklyar).
  • A postgraduate students in 1999-2002 (Yury Chernikov).
  • 10 Master theses.
  • 8 Bachelor theses.

PROJECTS AND GRANTS FUNDED BY INTERNATIONAL FUNDS

  • The Swedish Institute grant SI-01424/2007 for 3 years from 2007 till 2010: research in Statistical Learning Theory.
  • Grant from EU TEMPUS Project IB_JEP-25054-2004 for 14 days of stay in Malardalen University, Vasteras, Sweden, in November - December 2007.
  • Grant from Department of Applied Economics of K.U.Leuven, for a month stay in Leuven, Belgium, in August 2006.
  • Grant from SFB 386 for two weeks stay in Munich in May 2006.
  • Grant from EU TEMPUS Project IB_JEP-25054-2004 for 10 days of stay in Malardalen University, Vasteras, Sweden, in November 2006.
  • Grant from SFB 386 for two weeks stay in Munich in November 2005.
  • Grant from SFB 386 for two weeks stay in Munich in May 2005.
  • Grant from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, for two weeks stay in January 2005.
  • Grant from SFB 386 for one-week stay in Munich in June, 2004.
  • Grant from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, project Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamical Models of Pricing Processes, during 2 weeks in May, 2004.
  • Grant from the University of Debrecen, Hungary, during 3 weeks in January-February, 2004.
  • Grant from EU TEMPUS Project NP-22012-2001 "Statistical Aspects of Economics" (visited Malardalen University, Vasteras, Sweden, during 3 weeks in January-February, 2003).
  • Visiting Professorship in Katholiek Universiteit of Leuven, Belgium, Department of Applied Economics and Department of Mathematics (November, 2002, research in applied statistics).
  • Postdoctoral research fellowship of the Belgian office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs, promoting Scientific and Technical Collaboration with Central and Eastern Europe (1 year, 2001-2002, research in applied statistics).
  • Grant from INTAS, Project 2000, N16, Mathematics (2 years, 2001-2002, research in random fields and financial mathematics).
  • Grant from the National Science Council of Taiwan, Republic of China (3 weeks in 2001, research in measurement error models).
  • grants from EU TEMPUS-Tacis Programme "Statistical Aspects of Economics" (JEP-10353-97) (5 times visited Sweden in 1998-2000, during 2-3 weeks each time).
  • Grant N179 - 1995 of Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Education. Lajos Kossuth University, Deberen, Hungary (4 months during 1998- 2000, research in mathematical statistics and geostatistics).
  • Grant of DFG (Deutsche Forschungesgemeinschaft) N436 UKR 17/10/96, Hamburg University (1996, 2 months, research in statistical errors-in-variables models).
  • Grant of DFG (Deutsche Forschungesgemeinschaft) N436 UKR 17/29/96, Hamburg University (1997-1998, 4 months, research in statistical errors-in-variables models and in insurance mathematics).
  • Grant of Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Education (Visiting Professorship in Hungary) Lajos Kossuth University Debrecen, Hungary (1998, March, research in geostatistics).
  • Grant as Soros Associate Professor, Grant No. APUO 71051 from International Soros Science Education Program (1997).

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH PROJECTS


-Participation in 3 industrial research projects at Statistical Research Centre in Kyiv National
University (1984-1990; elaboration of algorithms and programs for statistical processing of trajectory information; results are presented in 3 papers).
-Participation in 2 industrial research projects at National Aviation University, Kyiv (1990- 1999; elaboration of statistical methods and algorithms for dispatcher service in aviation; results are presented in 7 papers).
-Participation in joint industrial research project at Kyiv National University and the Plant "Arsenal" (1981, results are presented in 1 Author's License and 2 papers).

FURTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Malardalen University, Vasteras, Sweden, 2007, December: lecture at the seminar of Professor Silvestrov.
  • Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, 2007, February: lecture at the seminar at the board of Theoretical Mechanics.
  • University of Munich, 2006, May: lecture at the seminar of Prof. Schneeweiss at the Institute of Statistics.
  • Lund University, Sweden, 2005, December: lecture at the seminar at Centre for Mathematical Science, Board of Mathematical Statistics.
  • University of Munich, 2005, November: lecture at the seminar of Prof. Schneeweiss at the Institute of Statistics.
  • University of Munich, 2005, May: 2 lectures at the seminar of Prof. Schneeweiss at the Institute of Statistics.
  • Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven, Belgium, 2005. February: 2 lectures at the seminar of Statistics at the University Center for Statistics and 1 lecture at the seminar on Financial Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics. April: a lecture at the seminar at the Electrical Engineering Department.
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 2005, January: 3 lectures at the seminar at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
  • Odessa National University, 2004, October: lecture at the seminar at the Department of Calculus.
  • The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, 2004, July: lecture at the seminar of Prof. Cressie at the Department of Statistics.
  • University of Pittsburgh, USA, 2004, July: lecture at the seminar of Prof. Gleser at the Department of Statistics.
  • Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, 2004, June: lecture at the seminar of Prof. Van Huffel at the Department of Electronic Engineering.
  • University of Munich, 2004, June: lecture at the seminar of Prof. Schneeweiss at the Institute of Statistics.
  • University of Uppsala, Sweden, 2004, May: lecture at the seminar of Professor Gut at the Mathematical Department.
  • Institute of Cybernetics of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, 2004, April: lecture at the seminar of Prof. Knopov.
  • Kyiv Technical University, 2004, March: lecture at the seminar of Prof. Buldygin and Prof. Kozachenko.
  • Institute of Mathematics of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, 2004, March: lecture at the seminar of Academician Berezanskii.
  • University of Uppsala, Sweden, 2003, January: lecture at the seminar of Professor Gut at the Mathematical Department and at the seminar of Professor S?derstr?m at the Department of Information Technology, Systems and Control.
  • Malardalen University, Vasteras, Sweden, 2003, January: lecture at the seminar of Professor Silvestrov.
  • Katholiek Universiteit of Leuven, Belgium, 2002, November: lecture at the joint seminar of the actuarial and statistical groups.
  • University of Munich, Institute of Statistics, 2002, February: lecture at the seminar of Professor Schneeweiss.
  • University of Tainan, Taiwan, 2001, June: lecture.
  • University of Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2001, June: lecture.
  • Institute of Statistical Science of Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2001, June: lecture.
  • Technical University of Munich, 2000, December: lecture at the seminar of Professor Kl?ppelberg.
  • Malardalen University, Vasteras, 2000, November: research visit and a lecture at the seminar of Professor Silvestrov.
  • Malardalen University, Vasteras, 2000, May: research visit.
  • University of Uppsala, 2000, November: lecture at the seminar of Professor Gut.
  • University of Munich, Germany, 2000, March and 1999, November: 2 lectures at the seminar of Professor Schneeweiss.
  • Ume? University, 1999, October: research visit and 2 lectures at the seminars of Professor Belyaev and Professor Silvestrov.
  • University of Pittsburgh, 1999: lecture at the seminar of Professor Gleser.
  • University of Donetsk, Ukraine, 1999: lecture at the seminar of Professor Bondarev.
  • Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, 1998: lecture at the seminar of Academician Tusnady.
  • University Hamburg, Germany, 1998: research visit and 2 lectures at the seminar of Professor Neuhauss.
  • University of Vilnius, 1995: lecture at the seminar of Professor Paulauskas.
  • Institute of Mathematics, Kyiv, 1994: lecture at the seminar of Academician Skorohod.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

  • Elected member of the International Statistical Institute, 2004-, see http://www.cbs.nl/isi/ISImembers.pdf
  • European Mathematical Society, 2004-
  • Bernoully Society for Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics, 1999-
  • American Mathematical Society, 1995-
  • Member of Specialized Research Council D11.193.01 at the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Donetsk, 1998-2000.
  • Member of Research Council of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, 2006-

MEMBERSHIP IN EDITORIAL BOARDS OF JOURNALS

  • member of the Editorial Board of the journal “In the World of Mathematics” (Ukraine), 1996-
  • Deputy editor of this journal, 2007-

REFEREEING AND REVIEWING

  • Guest editor of a special issue on measurement error models of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 2007.
  • Opponent at Ph.D. defences of:
    Brayman, V.B. (2006, Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine),
    Kichkina, N.V. (1999, Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Donetsk),
    Fu Li (1995, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University).
  • Reviewer of about 70 papers submitted to the journals: Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Japan), The Annals of Statistics, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, Automatica, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Journal of Multivariate Analysis (USA), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (USA), Image and Vision Computing, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (USA), Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences (Germany), Random Operators and Stochastic Equations (The Netherlands), Revue des Annales de l'I.S.U.P. (France), Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Statistica Sinica (Taiwan), Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes (France), Statistical Papers, Statistics (a journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics, Germany), Technometrics, and Ukrainian journals: In the World of Mathematics, Mathematics at School, Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics, Radioelectronics and Communications Systems, Theory of Stochastic Processes, Ukrainian Mathematical Journal.
  • Reviewer of about 70 papers in the review journal American Mathematical Review and about 60 papers in the review journal Zentralblatt fur Mathematik.

ORGANIZING OF CONFERENCES AND OLYMPIADS

  • Member of Scientific Committee of Fourth Total Least Squares and Errors-in-Variables Modeling Workshop, Leuven, Belgium, August 2006.
  • Co-organizer of the section on statistics of stochastic processes at International Conference Modern Stochastics: Theory and Applications, dedicated to the memory of Professor M.I. Yadrenko, Kyiv, June 2006.
  • Co-organizer of the section on statistics-II at the conference "Functional Methods in Approximation Theory, Operator Theory, Stochastic Analysis and Statistics-II", dedicated to the memory of A.Ya. Dorogovtsev, Kyiv, October 2004.
  • Co-organizer of the section on financial mathematics at International Gnedenko Conference, Kyiv, June, 2002.
  • Member of jury of four Olympiads in Ukraine organized by G. Soros
  • Member of jury of eleven All-Ukrainian Olympiads of young mathematicians, in particular in 2007 was a deputy head of jury and responsible for the 9th class, and 3 times was responsible for the 10th class.
  • Member of jury of the 6th, 7th, and 8th Open Physical & Mathematical Olympiad, Odessa, October, 2004, October, 2005, and October, 2006.
  • Member of jury of the 7th- 10th All-Ukrainian tournaments of young mathematicians, Kyiv, October, 2004 and October, 2005, Ivano-Frankivsk, October-November, 2006, Sumy, October-November, 2007.
  • Member of jury of the Open Olympiad "Stokes' Problems" on Mathematics & Mechanics for students and Ph.D. students, Kyiv, May, 2004.
  • Organizer of 10 faculty rounds of student mathematical Olympiad. It resulted in 5 methodical papers,
  • Author of about 90 published problems, most of which were proposed at the mathematical Olympiads of different levels.

REPORTS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

Plenary lecture at the conferences:
International conference Functional Methods in Approximation Theory, Operator Theory, Stochastic Analysis and Statistics-II, dedicated to the memory of A. Ya. Dorogovtsev, Kyiv, October, 2004.
-6th International Conference on Applied Informatics, Eger, Hungary, January, 2004,
-Functional Methods in Approximation Theory, Operator Theory, Stochastic Analysis and Statistics, Kyiv, Ukraine, October, 2001.

Invited lectures at the conferences:

  • International Summer School Insurance and Finance: Science, Practice, and Education, Foros, Crimea, Ukraine, June 2007.
  • Fourth Total Least Squares and Errors-in-Variables Modeling Workshop, Leuven, Belgium, August 2006 (two lectures).
  • International Summer School Insurance and Finance: Science, Practice, and Education, Foros, Crimea, Ukraine, June 2006.
  • International Conference Modern Stochastics: Theory and Applications, dedicated to the memory of Professor M.I. Yadrenko, Kyiv, June 2006 (two lectures).
  • 14th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics, Auckland, New Zealand, March-April 2005.
  • Conference Recent Advances in Statistics, Kanpur, India, January 2005.
  • International conference Functional Methods in Approximation Theory, Operator Theory, Stochastic Analysis and Statistics-II, dedicated to the memory of A.Ya. Dorogovtsev, Kyiv, October 2004 (two lectures).
  • 7th International Conference Computer Data Analysis and Modeling: Robustness and Computer Intensive Methods, Minsk, September 2004 (two lectures: invited and contributed).
  • Workshop on Risk Analysis in Finance and Insurance, Munich, June 2004.
  • International Gnedenko Conference, Kyiv, June 2002.
  • 6th International School on Mathematical and Statistical Methods in Economics, Finance and Insurance, Laspi, Ukraine, September, 2002.
  • INTAS workshop Incomplete Markets and Weather Derivatives, Berlin, February 2002.
  • 3rd International workshop on TLS and Errors-in-Variables Modeling, Leuven, Belgium, August 2001 (two invited lectures).
  • Workshop Risk in Accumulation Products. New-York, January 1999.

Contributed lectures at the conferences:

  • 8th International Conference Computer Data Analysis and Modeling: Complex Stochastic Data and Systems, Minsk, September, 2007.
  • International Conference Skorokhod Space 50 Years On, Kyiv, June, 2007.
  • Limit theorems and connected topics. Workshop dedicated to 60th anniversary of Prof. D.S.Silvestrov, Kyiv, February, 2007.
  • 2nd World Congress Aviation in the 21st Century, Safety in Aviation, Kyiv, September 2005.
  • 25th European Meeting of Statisticians, Oslo, July 2005.
  • workshop Numerical Methods of Statistics, Prague, August 2004 (two lectures).
  • International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 2004.
  • 8th International Vilnius Conference on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics. Vilnius, Lithuania, June 2002.
  • International Conference Sensors & Systems, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, June 2002.
  • 2001 Taipei International Quantitative Finance Conference, Taiwan, Republic of China, July 2001.
  • International School on Mathematical and Statistical Applications in Economics. Vasteras, Sweden, January 2001.
  • Conference in Celebration of Wayne A. Fuller's 70th Birthday. Ames, Iowa, USA, June 2001.
  • German Open Conference on Probability and Statistics. Hamburg, March 2000.
  • Workshop Stochastic Methods in Finance, Insurance, and Physics. Munich, September 2000.
  • Second International School on Actuarial and Financial Mathematics. Kyiv, June 1999.
  • Conference in Balatonlelle, Hungary, on Limit Theorems in Probability and Statistics. June-July 1999.
  • 20th International Seminar on Stability Problems for Stochastic Models. Lublin-Naleczow, September 1999.
  • 52nd Session of International Statistical Institute. Helsinki, August 1999.
  • 3rd Ukrainian-Scandinavian Conference on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics. Kyiv, June 1999.
  • First International School on Actuarial and Financial Mathematics. Kyiv, January 1998.
  • 7th Vilnius Conference on Probability Theory and 22nd European Meeting of Statisticians. Vilnius 1998.
  • International Colloquium on Applications of Mathematics in memoriam Lothar Collatz. Hamburg, 1997.
  • 2nd Scandinavian-Ukrainian Conference on Mathematical Statistics. Ume?, June 1997.
  • 6th International Vilnius Conference on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics. Vilnius, 1993.
  • International Conference on Change Points in Random Processes and Fields. Kyiv, 1992.
  • 5th International Vilnius Conference on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics. Vilnius, 1989.
  • International Conference Stochastic Optimization. Kyiv, 1984.

Poster presentations at the conferences:
-16th Symposium of IASC on Computational Statistics, Prague, August, 2004 (two presentations).
-Workshop on Recent Developments and Applications in the Statistical Analysis of Discrete Structures. Munich, Germany, October, 2001.
-International Symposium Extreme Value Analysis: Theory and Practice. Leuven, Belgium, August, 2001.
- International Workshop Statistics with Deficient Data. Munich, July, 2000.

SELECTED CHESS TOURNAMENTS

  • Scandinavian Rapid Chess Tournament, T?by, Stockholm, December 2005: 22nd place, 60 participants, scored 5.0 out of 9.
  • 17th Open of Leuven, Belgium, November 2005: shared 2nd place with IGM R.Akesson (Sweden) and FM S.Berry (England), scored 6.0 out of 7, performance 2447 Elo points.
  • Rapid summer tournament in Leuven, Belgium, 2005: 1st place, performance 2185 Belgian points.
  • Rapid tournament in Landen, Belgium, July 2005: shared 2nd place with IM A. Alyonkin (Russia), scored 6.0 out of 7, performance 2206.
  • Rapid summer tournament in Leuven, Belgium, 2004: 1st place, performance 2105 Belgian points.
  • Knokke Open, Belgium, August 2004: scored 4.5 out of 7, performance 2080.
  • 16th Open of Leuven, Belgium, November 2004: scored 4.5 out of 7, performance 2219 Elo points.
  • Youth championship of sport society Avangard, Kiev, December 1974: 1st place.
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