Alexey Stomakhin
Department of Mathematics E-mail: **.******@*****.***
University of California, Los Angeles Site: www.math.ucla.edu/ alexey
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555 USA Phone: +1-310-***-****
Education
University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
M.A. Mathematics (Mar 2011), Ph.D. Mathematics (expected in 2014) Aug 2009 present
Area of Specialization: Applied and Computational Mathematics
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Moscow, Russia
B.S. Applied Mathematics and Physics (Jun 2009) Sep 2005 Jun 2009
Graduated with Honors, 4.0 GPA
Minor: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Summary
Solid background in applied and computational mathematics, including research and coursework in ODEs and
PDEs, numerical analysis, scienti c computing, numerical linear algebra, computational solid and uid mechanics,
multigrid methods and optimization.
Pro cient primarily in C++, but also familiar with a wide range of other programming languages, packages, and
paradigms; including C, Java, Pascal, L TEX, Perl, Python, Shell scripting, OpenMP, OpenGL, Matlab/Octave
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and Maple.
Signi cant experience with Maya API.
Strong debugging skills.
Experience
Walt Disney Animation Studios Burbank, CA
Graduate Research Intern Jun 2012 Sep 2012
Optimization of a Maya plugin for physically based character skinning via e cient stencil computation and
parallelization/vectorization on a CPU.
Walt Disney Animation Studios Burbank, CA
Graduate Research Intern Jul 2011 Sep 2011
Implementation and performance comparison of multigrid solvers for physically based character skinning.
Intel Corporation Moscow, Russia
Undergraduate Intern Apr 2008 Jul 2009
Development and implementation of automatic veri cation and graphical representation systems for a pro-
cessor performance model.
Research
University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
Research Fellow Jun 2010 present
Crime Modeling, Social Networks, Reconstruction of Missing Data (2010-2011)
Scienti c Computing, Solid/Fluid Dynamics, Physically Based Animation, Computer Graphics (2011-present)
My research focuses on realistic simulation of uids and elastic solids. My research interests include computational
solid and uid mechanics, solid/ uid coupling, multigrid methods and parallel computing.
Publications
A. Stomakhin, R. Howes, C. Schroeder, J. Teran, Energetically Consistent Invertible Elasticity, ACM SIG-
GRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), 2012
A. Stomakhin, M. Short, and A. Bertozzi, Reconstruction of Missing Data in Social Networks Based on Temporal
Patterns of Interactions, Inverse Problems, 27(11), 115013, 2011
Awards
Horn-Moez Prize for Excellence in First-Year Graduate Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 2010
UCLA Foundation Doctoral Fellowship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep 2009 present
Alexander Abramov Foundation Fellowship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan 2006 Jun 2009
Moscow Educational Department Academic Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sep 2005
Russian National Physics Olympiad, 3rd Degree Diploma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Apr 2005
Teaching
University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
Teaching Fellow Jan 2010 present
Leading discussion sections to review lecture material, tutoring at the Student Math Center, preparing review
sessions before exams, and holding o ce hours to provide students with additional help.
References
Available upon request