The Puzzlers
I was born in St. Petersburg (USSR) in 1965, and grew up in the then-secret Nuclear Federal Center town called Arzamas-16 (now Sarov). I graduated with an M.Sc. in applied physics and math from Phystech in Moscow suburbs in 1988 and then worked towards a PhD at the Russian Academy of Sciences while my lab slowly collapsed in the tumultuous 1990s. When a research opportunity opened up in 1994 to join a computational biology lab at New York University, I hesitantly took it but liked it so much that never moved back. Since 1999, I moved from New York to San Diego where I worked at a Genomics Research Institute for 17 years and now Rady Children's Institute for Genomics for another ten. My interests are in computational biophysics, data science, and genomics. I was lucky to be at the right moment in the right place for research revolution in genomics, so I have papers in Nature, Science, Cell etc, and have h-index = 49. My latest research is helping to advance precision medicine field, enabling fast genetic diagnoses for critically ill newborns. Recreational mathematics is a hobby that keeps my brain flossed over decades.
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