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Donald C. Wunsch II
Dept. of Electrical and
Computer Engineering
301 W. 16th St., 131 EECH
Rolla, MO 65409 USA
573-341-4521 Office
573-341-4532 Fax
dwunsch@mst.edu

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Alexander Y. Novokhodko

 

EDUCATION
 University of Missouri-Rolla, GPA 4.0/4.0
PhD, Computer Engineering
Thesis title: "Neural Networks with Categorical Valued Inputs and Applications to Intrusion Detection"		August, 2004
Rolla, MO
 
  • Computer Security
  • Systems Architecting
  • Advanced Computer Architecture
  • Microprocessor Systems Design
  • Parallel Processing: Architectures, Languages, Algorithms
  • Advanced Neural Networks
  • Optimal Control and Estimation
  • Graph Theory (given by F.Harary)

 

Texas Tech University, GPA 3.5/4.0
Graduate studies, Electrical Engineering		Winter, 1999
Lubbock, TX
 
  • Advanced Operating Systems Design
 Omsk State University, GPA 3.68/4.0
M.S./B.S., Applied Mathematics
Thesis title: "Software simulator of neural network with small experts architecture".		1988 to 1993
Omsk, Russia
 
  • Information theory (coding, compression ...)
  • Numerical Methods
  • Calculus of Variations and Optimization techniques
  • Operations Research

 

EXPERIENCE
 University of Missouri-Rolla, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Assistant, Applied Computational Intelligence Laboratory		Aug, 1999 to present
Rolla, MO
 
  • Researching neural networks for intrusion detection systems
  • Researching neural networks in collective robotics (stochastic optimization, adaptive critic in collective robotics search problem)
 Microsoft Corporation, Windows Division, Networking & Telecommunications
Software Design Engineer Intern, Real Time Communications		Sep to Dec, 2001
Redmond, WA
 
  • Design and implementation of Network Conditions Simulator - a tool that is used to fine tune, evaluate and experiment with new algorithms and codecs of the RTC streaming engine against varying network conditions

 

Texas Tech University, Department of Electrical Engineering
Research Assistant, Applied Computational Intelligence Laboratory		Jan to Aug, 1999
Lubbock, TX
Researching neural networks in collective robotics (gradient optimization techniques in collective robotics search problem)

 

Institute of Computational Modelling, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch
Software Engineer, Laboratory of Modelling of Nonequilibrium Systems		1996 to 1998
Krasnoyarsk, Russia
 
  • Maintaining corporate network (about 200 hosts, Internet)
  • Researching neural network training algorithms for data mining
  • Mentoring undergraduates

 

 

Krasnoyarsk State Technical University
Fellow, Department of Neurocomputers		1993 to 1996
Krasnoyarsk, Russia
 
  • Researching advanced neural network architectures and training algorithms (competitive learning of small subnetworks, NN design tools, NN in data mining)
  • Mentoring undergraduates

 

Omsk State UniversityOmsk, Russia
 Software Engineer, Computer Center1991 to 1993
 
  • Postmaster of univer.omsk.su
  • Maintaining PC software in computer labs
  • Design of transport level, installation of corporate network for "RosTekstilTorg" company, Omsk, Russia

 

Laboratory Assistant, Applied and Computational Mathematics Department1988 to 1991
 
  • Maintaining PC, RSX11, RT11, OS/370 software in computer labs
  • Developed a graphic library for RT11 Pascal

 

SKILLS
 
  • High-level languages: C/C++, Forth, and SQL
  • Assembly languages: Intel x86, TI TMS320C2x, DEC PDP11
  • OS Platforms: Windows NT, OS/2, UNIX (Solaris, OSF/1, FreeBSD)
  • Understanding in TCP/IP internetworking
  • Knowledge of 32-bit Intel architecture (IA-32)
  • Logic analyzer, oscilloscope, soldering

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS
 
  • Intrusion Detection
  • AI, Neural networks
  • Collective Robotics
  • Data mining
  • Operating systems
  • Local and wide area computer networks ( LAN / WAN )
  • Microprocessor architecture design
  • Embedded systems

 

Publicationsa book chapter, 6 conference proceedings and 9 abstracts