Nikolay Vyahhi

I'm working in the Pavel Pevzner's Algorithmic Biology Lab in St. Petersburg, Russia.

We're developing cool algorithms & software for genome assembly.
Currenlty we challenge bacterial single-cell next-generation sequencing data with highly non-uniform coverage.
The software is released to open-source in April 2012, see our latest paper in the Journal of Computational Biology.

Current Projects

Scientific Researcher of SPAdes Genome Assembler for Single Cell data @ Algorithmic Biology Lab.
Director of Masters' Program on Algorithmic Bioinformatics @ SPb Academic University.
Director of Bioinformatics Courses.
Co-director of the Game|Changers.

Past Projects:

Python teaching @ SPb State University (2010-2011).
UNIX and scripting languages seminar @ SPb Academic University (2010-2011).
OpenPals startup — Social network infrastructure based on open standards like OpenID and FOAF. It's decentralized, non-commercial and open-source (2009-2011).
Supervision of the students' project Genome Query — Web-based Genome Query Engine (@ JetBrains).

Education

I've got my masters' degree with honors from the Deptartment of Software Engineering of SPb State University.

I've also had 3 years of undergraduate studies in Law @ SPbSU Law Faculty (international law major) and 1 year of graduate studies in Mathematical Economics @ SPb HSE. But most I've got is clear understanding that I prefer Bioinformatics and Computer Science.

Awards:

12, 13 and 14th places at ACM ICPC NEERC ½ final (2004 — 2006)
Potanin's Federal Scholarship Program Winner (2009, as HSE student)

Contacts:

Email / GTalk: vyahhi@gmail.com
Twitter: vyahhi
LinkedIn: vyahhi

Short Bio:

St. Petersburg (Russia), age 26.

Updated: May 1, 2012.