In winter of 1997 my interest focused on Artificial Intelligence when I took Knowledge Representation and Processing (cs2360) class. I realized that AI is not only one of the most interesting fields of computer science, but it is also a very important one in today's life. As the complexity of programs increase, they must be able to optimize their performance through adaptation and learning. To apply the principles of learning I wrote a pawn game program in lisp that won the second place in the Osca tournament, where the games of students competed with each other. I made AI one of my areas of specialization and took Intro to AI (cs3361), Problem Solving and Learning (cs4331) and Robotics & Computer Vision (cs4324).

Although I was very excited about my game, I realized that it was not very appealing to most people, because it had only command line interface. I wanted to share my excitement with people who were not very familiar with computers. The only way to reach that goal was with a graphical user interface.

As soon as I started to take computer graphics classes, I fell in love with the field. It not only lets people to use their imagination and be creative, but also allows them to express themselves and communicate their message to others more effectively. Graphics is a field that is not only challenging and hard, but also fun. When I created my first morph in Introduction to Computer Graphics (cs4390) class and my first fractal mountain and weeble animation using open GL in my Advanced Computer Graphics Techniques (cs4391) class I was ecstatic. I tried to take every special topics class that fit in my schedule: Computer Animation (spring 98), and Special Effects (spring 99). Also I took two quarters of senior research project (cs4308-9) and one quarter of special topics class (cs4903) with Dr. Jessica Hodgins. I was a recipient of URIP (Undergraduate Research Internship Program) award for two quarters, fall and winter 98, for this research.

Spring 99 was one of the greatest moments of my school life. I have received more awards than I did throughout my life. Among them are GTE Fellowship, second place in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing Symposium. I also was one of co-authors of the "The Effects of Noise on the Perception of Animated Human Running" paper that was accepted to the Eurographics Workshop on Animation and Simulation '99 (CAS '99). This article describes the research I've been working on for the past year.

In June of 99 I received my Bachelor's degree and was admitted to the master's program in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. I stayed focused with my interests and continued to specialize in computer graphics and computer vision. As a student I had a chance to work with Jessica Hodgins, Aaron Bobick, Jarek Rossignac, Greg Turk, Irfan Essa and many other great people known in the field of computer Graphics.

As I was graduating with my Master's degree in Spring 2001 I joined VistaScape Security Systems as image engineer. Here I develop and support  real time object  tracking component of the VistScape's Security Data Management System that analyzes data from video.  To this date I continue to closely collaborate with Aaron Bobick on this project.

In January 26, 2003 I got married to Dmitry Kreslavskiy.  Since then, I am the happiest person in the whole universe. You can look at our wedding pictures here.