Joe Petviashvili

Current

Founder and CEO at News Alpha, LLC

Past

Founder and CEO at Jaanix, Inc.
Security Architect at FaceTime Communications

Education

Moskovskij Fiziko-Tehniceskij Institut (Gosudarstvennyj Universitet)
Moskovskij Fiziko-Tehniceskij Institut (Gosudarstvennyj Universitet)

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Industry

Computer Software

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Joe Petviashvili’s Experience

Founder and CEO

News Alpha, LLC

(Financial Services industry)

September 2008 — Present (11 months)

News Alpha portfolio optimizer - uncrowd your trades by making your portfolio stock market and *news* trends neutral. Get Sharpe ratio ~30% better than industry standard optimizers.
Founder and CEO

Jaanix, Inc.

(Internet industry)

April 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 9 months)

Jaanix lets you discover and share things on the web that matter to people like you.

You can "tune in" with clicks, sliders, ratings, tags, saves, comments, and new posts. Based on this feedback jaanix shows what is relevant to you right now.
Security Architect

FaceTime Communications

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

August 1999 — July 2006 (7 years)

Development of the core of FaceTime IM/P2P/Spyware security and management products: TCP/IP networking, packet processing/IDS, asynchronous IO, protocol parsing, IM network session state management, distributed event processing, API design and documentation, network traffic pattern matching, statistical detection algorithms for encrypted network protocols.

Joe Petviashvili’s Education

Moskovskij Fiziko-Tehniceskij Institut (Gosudarstvennyj Universitet)

M.S. , Applied Math and Physics , 1995 — 1996

Computer modeling of hyper-velocity impacts with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. Study of meteor collisions with planets and shield / hull collisions at speeds over 10 km/s.

Activities and Societies:

CREC MIPT
Moskovskij Fiziko-Tehniceskij Institut (Gosudarstvennyj Universitet)

B.S. , Applied Math and Physics , 1989 — 1995

FOPF, MIPT, MFTI

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Joe Petviashvili’s Interests:

go, probability theory, causal bayesian networks, social networks, attack resistant trust metrics, online reputation management, complimentary currencies, commons based peer production, post-scarcity economy