EXPERTISE

Fall 2023 – present | New York University
New York, USA

1. Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP), Tandon School of Engineering
– Industry Assistant Professor
– Director of the M.S. in Applied Urban Science and Informatics Program

2. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
– Affiliated faculty in Urban Planning

3. Department of Civil and Urban Engineering
– Urban Systems Faculty

2023 | University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)
Chicago, USA
Ph.D., Urban Planning and Policy

Dissertation: “Transition to Decentralized Energy in Cities through a Complex Systems Approach”

2018 | University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)
Chicago, USA
Certificate in Geospatial Analysis and Visualization

2015 | Military Technical University
Balashikha, Russia
M.S./B.S., Jurisprudence

Thesis: “The State Registration of Real Estate and Transactions with It”

2014 | State University of Land Use Planning
Moscow, Russia
M.S./B.S., Engineer in Land Cadaster, Summa Cum Laude

Thesis: “Application of Spatial Methods of Land Monitoring for Efficient Land Use of Urban Areas”

Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP)
(Tandon School of Engineering)
New York, USA | New York University, Industry Assistant Professor, Fall 2023 – present

1. Industry Assistant Professor
   
   – Urban Decision Models | CUSP-GX 8053 (1 semester; 31 students)
   – Geographic Information System | CUSP-GX 5053 (3 semesters, 5 sections with 22-24 students in each, projects showcase: Fall 2023; Fall 2024: sections A\B; Fall 2025: sections A\B)
   – Machine Learning for Cities | CUSP-GX 7033 (1 semester; 82 students)
   – Urban Spatial Analytics | CUSP-GX 8033 (2 semesters, 19-24 students; Spring 2024; Spring 2025)
   – Capstone Urban Science Intensive II: Data Analysis and Communications (1 semester, 74 students; Spring 2025)
   – Dissertation Level Research in Civil & Urban Engineering
   – Guided Studies
   – International Summer School: Urban Data Science (3 weeks, 24 students; co-teaching with the University of Athens (Greece), Technological University of Uruguay (Uruguay), University of Lisbon (Portugal), and University of Tuscia (Italy))

Department of Urban Planning and Policy
Chicago, USA | University of Illinois Chicago, Instructor/Teaching Assistant, Fall 2018 – Summer 2023

1. Instructor (Fall 2021 – Summer 2023)
   
   – Intermediate GIS for Planning and Policy | UPP 462 (3 semesters, 10-25 students; Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021)
   – Geographic Information System (GIS) for Planning and Policy | UPP 461 (1 semester, 21 students; Spring 2022)
   
   
2. Teaching Assistant (Fall 2018 – Spring 2021)
   
   – Intermediate GIS for Planners | UPP 462 (1 semester, 30 students)
   – Introduction to Geographic Information System (GIS) | UPP 461 (5 semesters, ~25 students each section)
   
   
3. Graduate Assistant
   
   – Literature review of system methods for sustainability planning and curriculum development for the environmental planning course (UPP 572) and grant writing (Summer 2022 and Summer 2023)
   – Assistance with curriculum preparation for courses that are part of the Geospatial Analysis and Visualization (GSAV) campus certificate: undergraduate and graduate-level GIS courses with beginner, intermediate, and advanced topics (Summer 2022)
   – Guest Lecturer:
   1. Multiple sessions of PhD Seminar: Introduction to Scientific Inquiry | UPP 594 – Theory of Complexity and Complex Systems (Fall 2018 and Fall 2019)
   2. Practices for Sustainable Cities | US 230 – Energy in Cities (Spring 2018)
   3. Guest lecture and term project review in Plan Making Studio | UPP 505 – Decentralized Energy Systems as an Alternative for the Traditional Power Grid (Spring 2021)
   
   

Institute for Environmental Science and Policy (IESP)
Chicago, USA | University of Illinois Chicago, Research Assistant, Spring 2021

1. Sustainable Urban-Regional Modeling (SURe Modeling) Network Project for energy-food-water systems
   • Conduct a series of collaborative workshops for city planners, regional partners, and other stakeholders to develop causal loop diagrams representing the integrated urban-rural social and ecological system in Northern Illinois [Miro, Gephi, Python]
   • Funded by a Sustaining Illinois grant from the Illinois Innovation Network (INN). Collaboration with the Northern Illinois University

Urban Data Visualization Lab (UDVL)
Chicago, USA | University of Illinois Chicago, Research Assistant, Fall 2018 – Fall 2020

1. Map-The-Count Census 2020 Data Research and GIS Visualization Pilot Project
   • Develop and maintain real-time web maps from the big data collected from the partners, manage a web platform, perform data analysis [ArcGIS, Machine Learning – Python], and prepare several peer-review publications
   • Funded by the Illinois Department of Human Services
2. Illinois COVID-19 Vulnerability Maps
   • Develop web maps that visualize and identify compounding vulnerabilities, both to the virus and to the socio-economic impact of the pandemic [ArcGIS Online]
   • Collaboration with Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois System
3. Folded Map Project
   • Create web maps for a general audience using open-source software [QGIS, Mapbox, and JavaScript]
   • Collaboration with the Department of Sociology (UIC), Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement (UIC), and social justice artist Tonika Johnson
4. Oral Health in the City of Chicago
   • Identify spatial patterns of oral public health and risk for upper airway and aerodigestive tract cancers in Chicago [ArcGIS Pro and QGIS]
   • Collaboration with the College of Medicine (UIC) and the College of Dentistry (UIC)
5. UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs Mapping Project
   • Analysis of the spatial distribution of domestic students by origin at the time of application, over the history of the college [Tableau]

Urban Transportation Center (UTC)
Chicago, USA | University of Illinois Chicago, Research Assistant, Fall 2018

1. Illinois Department of Transportation: Economic Development Project
   • Conduct surveys with past grantees, literature review, GIS analysis [ArcMap], and evaluation

EcoGeoTech, Ltd.
Moscow, Russia | Intern, Fall 2013

• Intern in the GIS department, create maps from the field gas-geochemical soil surveys [MapInfo and GoldenSoftware Surfer]