Dr. Alex Rhatushnyak

Alex Rhatushnyak, Ph.D. is winner of the Hutter Prize and is an algorithm engineer and data scientist with 15+ years of experience in algorithms research and development, bug fixing, and optimization.
 
Alex has a strong academic and practical technical background, communication skills. He has outstanding problem solving skills. and is a results-oriented, fast-learning, motivated, creative person with Canadian citizenship and a wish to be a strong member of a very strong team.
 
His specialities include: R&D, algorithm design, improvement, optimization, detection, data compression, lossless & lossy image compression, image processing, audio & voice compression, data analysis, data mining, DSP algorithms, MP3, G.723, G.729, GIF, JPG recompression, HTML & web compression, text compression, modeling, video compression, coding, real-time, multi-threading, VoIP, C, C++, GCC, G++, GNU tools, Visual C, VS, TI c5x, c6x, ARM, ARM9, PIC, MIPS, x86 assembler, MMX, SSE, SIMD, Windows, CentOS, Fedora, and RedHat.
 
Alex earned his MSc in Applied Math at Moscow State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science at A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems in 2002.
 
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