Tanya Khovanova's CV

Objective

I want to be a professor of recreational mathematics.

Personal data

Name: Tanya Khovanova
e-mail: tanyakh@yahoo.com
Citizenship: USA

Skills

• Research in mathematics: recreational mathematics, combinatorics, probability, geometry, number theory.
• Analytical skills: Ph.D. in Math, Gold Medal at International Math Olympics.
• Education: inventive curricula based on puzzles, magic tricks and fun math.
• Lecturing: Engaging speaker and popularizer of mathematics.
• Programming: Mathematica, Java, my rating at TopCoder is 1608.
• Algorithm Design: Optimal Control algorithms, Decentralized Control algorithms, Communications design, Assignment and Scheduling problems. Data Warehouse design and architecture.
• Inventive Testing.
• Web design, HTML/XML, Perl, Java and Javascript.
• Cryptography, PKI, RSA encryption.
• Network modeling, Internet topology, Network traffic analysis, Queuing theory.

Professional experience

Lecturer (from 2013), Visiting Scholar, Research Affiliate

• Doing math research and writing papers.
• Coaching math team at AMSA Charter School.
• Organizing Women and Mathematics program at IAS.
• Lecturing and entertaining people with mathematics at many places.
• Working with underrepresented students at Mathroots at MIT.
• Coordinating and supervising research for high-school and middle-school students at RSI, PRIMES MIT, and PRIMES STEP.
• Blogging about mathematics at http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/.

Lead Analyst in the Battle Management, Command, Control, and Communications (BMC3) division

• Developed and applied operations research and mathematical techniques to Joint Air Operations and Time Critical Targeting systems.
• Improved algorithm performance to meet key run-time requirements set by the customer.
• Contributed to the theoretical development of the AEA, COS, DCAT, m2cs, J-UCAS and IA projects.
• Developed research in Optimal Control algorithms, Decentralized Control algorithms, Communications Networks.
• Developed research in Assignment and Scheduling problems with complicated geographical, time and logical constraints.
• Worked on scoring and evaluation for information retrieval for GALE project.
• Started research in applying Game Theory to Battle Management.
• Started research in computational geometry: designing Java geometry packages limited by constraints of floating points operations.
• Taught multiple seminars.
• Designed a Distributed control system with communications delays.
• Provided inventive testing for our systems.

Member of Technical Staff

• Design of the Math Alive course and web-page with multiple Java applets: www.math.princeeton.edu/matalive.
• Research in Internet topology and Networks.
• Java programming for researching evolutions of large graphs.
• Problem writer for on-line programming competitions at Topcoder: www.topcoder.com.
• Architecture Review Board member at Topcoder.

Member of Technical Staff

• Designed and developed a PIN generation, management and storage (RSA encryption) model for pre-paid calling cards, using Mathematica.
• Invented a method of private shipping. Patent pending.
• Designed and developed a network traffic engineering model, which uses several types of equipment (Unisphere, Excel, VRU and DSP ports) in parallel and consecutive modes. (Using Excel linked with Mathematica).
• Designed templates for transferring different kinds of engineering knowledge (complicated tables, charts, and figures) into knowledge-based computer systems, which provide engineering solutions (Using Mathematica).
• Designed an architecture model of knowledge-based platforms for providing solutions for manufacturing and network problems.
• Worked on requirements and design ideas for creating Excel-like XML Spreadsheet and Solver.
• Designed templates for testing Web-based applications, which use Mathematica.
• Studied artificial intelligence, cryptography, computer security, digital money transfer, and queuing theory.

Assistant Solution Architect

• Participated in the design of the Line Sharing Solution Architecture for U S WEST, Inc. This application involved interfaces between multiple systems, systems enhancements, service orders design and processing flow description for software which supported sharing of voice and data between different service providers on the same digital subscriber line.

Systems Engineer

• Developed and designed Data Warehouse requirements for Bell Atlantic, Inc, capable of handling tens of millions of records a month. Created a unique interface between the Data Warehouse and the Bell Atlantic telephone numbers administration system. Designed an application that allowed optimization of reports, analysis of trends and data mining. Designed a unique forecasting model specifically targeted for the telecommunications industry. (Sagent Technologies tools were used to support the Data Warehouse).
• Developed multiple Requirements documents for the telecommunications customers involving local number portability and telephone number pooling, entity relationship databases, and interfaces between different systems.

Visiting Research Fellow

• Provided technical and teaching support for the development of an innovative Web-based course in applied mathematics - "Math Alive!". The course involves multiple computer experiments and interactive applications available via the Web and covers cryptography, image compression, probability, error correction, statistics, etc.
• Conducted research in quantum groups, wrote two papers.

Research Assistant with Lecturing

• Conducted research in quantum groups, published a paper.
• Taught the "Discrete Mathematics" course, covering logic, set theory, probability and graph theory.

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow

• Conducted research in quantum groups, published a paper.
• Studied cryptography (Prof. Silvio Micali's graduate course and Prof. Ronald Rivest's seminar) involving public key cryptography, digital signatures, certificate revocations, and zero-knowledge proofs.

Postdoctoral Position

• Conducted research in string theory and superstring theory.

Research Scientist

• Designed innovative educational programs in computer science for gifted children.
• Programmed and taught in Pascal and C.

Education

• 1988: Ph.D. in Mathematics. Scientific Advisor -- Prof. I.M. Gelfand
• 1981: M.S. in Math, Diploma of Honor of Moscow State University

Honors

References are available upon request.

• Tanya Khovanova's welcome page
• List of Publications

• Contact me: Tanya Khovanova

  tanyakh@yahoo.com

Last revised September 2021