Alexander Popov

Current

• Researcher / Software Engineer at MSTLab

Past

• Researcher at Microsoft, EMEA External Research Office
• Microsoft Student Partner at Microsoft Russia
• User Experience Designer / Marketing Manager at omniMusic Project / Musigy, Inc.

• Researcher / Software Engineer at ISP RAS

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Education

• Moscow State University
• Moscow State University

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Industry

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Alexander Popov’s Summary

I have more than 5 years of experience in the ICT industry (with primary focus in Software and IT).
With an extreme passion for technologies, innovation, research and also technology marketing, I am working on, initiating, and managing R&D projects.
List of industry companies I have worked with on research, pilot and incubation projects, includes: Microsoft и Microsoft Research (software and hardware development, research management, marketing, educational initiatives), Intel (software, technology entrepreneurship programs), HP Labs (research, software development), NVidia (graphics, research), EMC (educational initiatives), British Telecom (telco, convergence, SIP, IMS, pilot LBS, presence projects) and Ubiquity Software (SIP, IMS) [was acquired by Avaya in 2007].

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 / Software Engineer

  MSTLab

  (Computer Software industry)

  November 2004 — Present (5 years 3 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.
  
  I have worked on different in-house and public research projects at MSTLab within a wide range of functions from business and market analysis to user experience research to software design to project management.
  
  Our research projects received a number of grants from leading industry companies including Microsoft Research (MSR Cambridge) and Hewlett-Packard (HP Labs).
  
  See also: http://microsoft.cs.msu.su

• Researcher

  Microsoft, EMEA External Research Office

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  November 2008 — November 2009 (1 year 1 month)

  I was leading a project under joint Russian NTO office (Microsoft Russia) / PC|3 (Microsoft Corp.) initiative on context awareness and its applications for adaptive user interfaces. In this project, a mobile PC is extended with custom hardware (GPS receiver, digital compass, ambient light sensor, and accelerometer). Software adapts its user interface to the change of context and also features an augmented reality mode built entirely on sensors’ data instead of traditional solutions on image recognition.
  
  My functions on this position included research project management, market research, market analysis, custom hardware and software development and prototyping, user experience design, software design.
  
  The project was showcased to two Microsoft Corporate VPs, Bill Mitchell of PC|3 and Dan Ling of Microsoft Research.

• Microsoft Student Partner

  Microsoft Russia

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  December 2004 — July 2009 (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 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 was working closely with the DPE (Developer and Platform Evangelism) divisions of Microsoft Russia, Microsoft CEE, Microsoft EMEA and Microsoft Corp. (HQ) on technology marketing and technology adoption of company's platforms and services among research and academia audiences (with the primary target in the ICT field).
  
  This work included running in-campus technological events—including product launch waves (Visual Studio, Windows, Office etc.), lectures of MS employees and independent software professionals—and promotion of company's initiatives for academia and students (Imagine Cup, Channel 8, DreamSpark etc.) as well as organizing and supporting local campus communities.
  
  See also: http://student-partners.com

• User Experience Designer / Marketing Manager

  omniMusic Project / Musigy, Inc.

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  September 2004 — August 2006 (2 years )

  omniMusic is a software which enables musicians to join a community, find other musicians of complementary skills and interests, perform live in a distributed environment, and share the real-time performance broadly via IP multicasting.
  
  In this project I was responsible for user experience design—user interactions design, prototyping, graphic design and software development of the user interface—and for product design and marketing (incl. graphic design for branding, style guide, marketing materials and development of the web site).
  
  Our team won the venerable title of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup 2005 World Champion in Yokohama, Japan and was unofficially named Technology Rock Stars by Microsoft. Short after that the project turned into a startup company Musigy, Inc. based in San Francisco, CA.
  
  See also: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/aug05/08-01ImagineCupAwardsPR.mspx

• Researcher / Software Engineer

  ISP RAS

  (Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

  November 2005 — March 2006 (5 months)

  I was working with the Compiler Technologies Team (CTT) of Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
  
  My work in this group was related to 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

  M.Sc. Thesis: "Design for Unified Communications solution using 3GPP IMS architectural principles"