KUZMIN ALEXEY System Analyst, Real-time Data Flows and Image Processing Senior Researcher.

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• Data flows decommutation.
• Image correction and enhancement.
• Image Co-registration.

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

• 1978-1979: Moscow Physical Engineering Institute - senior engineer, analyst/programmer for education process automation.
• 1980-1981: Space Research Institute Russian Academy of Science - engineer. Analyst/Programmer for image processing systems development.
• 1982: AstroSpace Centre Russian Academy of Science - senior engineer. Analyst/Programmer for image processing system development.
• 1983-present time: Space Research Institute Russian Academy of Science - researcher, senior researcher. Analyst/Programmer for signal and data flows processing, image processing, researcher of the information systems for space projects, the space TV experiments data processing systems, on ground acceptance tests support project manager.

EDUCATION

• 1990 Ph.D. (Russian equivalent) Informatics in Space Research.
  Space Research Institute Russian Academy of Science.
• 1978 Ms.D. (Russian equivalent) System Analysis.
  Moscow Physical Engineering Institute.

MAJOR PROJECTS AND ACTIVITY

• 1979-1983: Image Processing Systems SW development and implementation. Image processing utilities development for Image Processing System under RSX-11M on PDP11/40 platform. The system was installed and utilized in ~10 institutions in former USSR and in East Europe.
• 1983-1987: Venus-Halley International Space Project. Real time data flow processing and image display utilities development and tests, image filtering and enhancement methods development and implementation. International documentation preparation. Publications.
• 1987-1991: Phobos International Space Project. Real time data flow processing and image display utilities development and tests team leader. Acceptance tests procedures. Image filtering and image enhancement methods development. International documentation preparation. Publications.
• 1991-1996: Mars Exploration International Program. Data processing and acceptance tests project management. LAN administration. WWW pages development. International documentation preparation. Publications.
• 1997 - p.p.: Earth Remote Sensing. Image Co-registration and WWW site supervision. Star tracking sensors acceptance test support.

SKILLS

• System Analysis: Mathematical simulation of real time data processing systems, Yourdan-DeMarco method.
• Computer languages: C, Pascal, Fortran, Basic, IDL.
• HypetText Markup Language
• Operation systems and shells: MS DOS, MS WINDOWS, WINDOWS-95, SOLARIS, MOTIF, RSX-11M.
• Other SW:ENVI/IDL, Basic Word and Graphic Processors, WORD for WINDOWS, Image Viewers for UNIX and for MS WINDOWS, WWW Browsers and HTML editors.
• Hardware: IBM PC compatible under DOS/WINDOWS and under Solaris, SPARC stations, DEC PDP.

MAIN PUBLICATIONS

1. TV Surveying of Comet Halley G.Avanesov, Ya.Ziman, A.Kuzmin et. al. -M.:Nauka,1989. (In Russian)
   • Preflight calibration of the TV cameras.
   • A subsystem for TV data preprocessing.
   • Efficiency of preprocessing during communication sessions.
   • Detailed analysis and correction of the images.
   • Transition to absolute brightness.
2. Television observation of Phobos. G.Avanesov, B.Bonev, A.Kuzmin et. al.
   Nature, vol.341, Oct. 1989, p.585-587.
3. Calibration of multicolor TV imaging and KRFM spectrometer observation of Phobos. S.Murchi, B.Zhukov, A.Kuzmin et. al. Lunar. Planet. Science XXXI, 1990.
4. Color variation on the surface of Phobos and their relationship to geologic features. S.Murchi, B.Zhukov, A.Kuzmin et. al. Lunar. Planet. Science XXXI, 1990.
5. Television investigation of Phobos G.Avanesov, B.Zhukov, A.Kuzmin et. al. -M.:Nauka,1994 (in Russian).
   • Video spectrometric system in-flight calibration.
   • Data Preprocessing.
   • Spectral characteristics of the Phobos's surface.

LANGUAGES

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