Alexander Popov

Current

• Researcher at Microsoft, EMEA External Research Office
• Microsoft Student Partner at Microsoft Russia
• Researcher at MSTLab, CS Dept. of MSU

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Past

• Researcher at ISP RAS

Education

• Moscow State University
• Moscow State University

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Alexander Popov’s Summary

Alexander Popov’s Specialties:

Technology marketing, project management, software design, software engineering, Microsoft technologies, human-computer interaction, context-aware computing, adaptive UI, sensor applications, UX concept design, VoIP, telecommunications, high performance computing, virtualization, educational initiatives, research, analytics

Alexander Popov’s Experience

• Researcher

  Microsoft, EMEA External Research Office

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  November 2008 — Present (9 months)

  Research and development on Context Awareness and its applications for adaptive user interfaces. Research project management, custom hardware and software development and prototyping, user experience design, software design.

• Microsoft Student Partner

  Microsoft Russia

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  December 2004 — Present (4 years 8 months)

  MSP is an annual award recognizing university students who have demonstrated strong technical knowledge of Microsoft developer technologies, and who willingly share that knowledge with fellow students through campus groups, clubs, and online communities.
  MSP is not a Microsoft employee, it is a volunteer, non-paid position.
  
  As a member of the program I'm responsible for:
  
  I. Research and teaching:
  
  0/ Reading lectures on MS and related technologies in Moscow universities
  1/ Leading of MSU .Net DevGroup (academic .NET UG in MSU)
  2/ Participation in some research projects (incl. sponsored by MS/its partners)
  
  II. Organization, support and promotion:
  
  3/ MS initiatives for students (programming contests, academic programs etc.)
  4/ MS events at MSU (Microsoft Student Days, Days of Microsoft Technologies, Research Conferences etc.)
  5/ Lectures of MS employees and independent software professionals on MS technologies at MSU
  
  See also: http://student-partners.com

• Researcher

  MSTLab, CS Dept. of MSU

  (Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 2004 — Present (4 years 9 months)

  Microsoft Technologies Lab. at CS Department of Moscow State Univ. has began its work in July 2004.
  MSTLab conducts both basic and applied research in Computer Science and Software Engineering working with the latest technologies.
  Our research projects received a number of grants from leading industry companies including Microsoft Research and Hewlett-Packard.
  
  See also: http://microsoft.cs.msu.su

• Researcher

  ISP RAS

  (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 2005 — March 2006 (5 months)

  Research and development in the field of high-performance computing (parallel applications, development support tools for parallel programming etc.)
  
  See also: http://ispras.ru

Alexander Popov’s Education

• Moscow State University

  Ph.D. , Computer Science, Mathematics , 2008 — 2011 (expected)

• Moscow State University

  M.Sc. , Computer Science, Mathematics , 2003 — 2008