Teaching
Teaching is my second passion after research. In 2006 I started working as an assistant lecturer at my alma mater, which is Peoples Friendship University of Russia (aka RUDN University), located in Moscow. Since then teaching is a big (and pleasant) part of my professional life.
Details on my teaching activities are summarized below.
- 2016 – now
Assistant Professor at Moscow Institute of Science and Technology (School of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science).
Delivering courses and supervising BSc, MSc and PhD students.
Courses: Intelligent Control Systems, Heuristic Search. - 2014 – now
Assistant Professor at the HSE University (Faculty of Computer Science).
Delivering courses and supervising BSc, MSc and PhD students.
Courses: Introduction to AI; Research Seminar. - 2019 – now
Assistant Professor at the Saint-Petersburg University (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science).
Delivering courses and supervising BSc students.
Courses: Heuristic Search. - 2012 – 2014
Lecturer at the Peoples Friendship University of Russia (aka RUDN University). Delivering courses and supervising BSc and MSc students.
Courses: Object-oriented Programming; Decision Support Systems; Introduction to AI. - 2011 – 2012
Lecturer at National Technology Institute (part of National Tertiary Education Consortium group of schools, now – Aspire2 International).
Courses: Object-oriented Programming With C#; Introduction To Programming With VB.NET. - 2006 – 2011
Assistant Lecturer at Peoples Friendship University of Russia (aka RUDN University). Assisting senior lecturers in teaching undergraduate students.
Courses: Programming Technologies and Languages; Introduction to AI.
Besides giving lectures and supervising university students I have also experience with teaching high-school kids. Specifically, 2017-2019 I was teaching the course “Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science” to senior high-school students (pre-graduate and graduate year, 10-11 grades in Russian school system) at the HSE Lyceum. Nearly at the same time I was also involved in giving edutainment lectures on robotics, computer science, AI to the 10-12YO kids within the project called “Kids University” (which was led by the Moscow Polytechnic museum).