ALEXANDER SADOVSKY (For my email address, see the PDF version) 103 MSTB Department of Mathematics University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 Education Ph.D., Applied Mathematics (2004), University of California, Irvine Adviser: Prof. Frederic Wan, Ph.D. Thesis Title: A Biodynamical Study of Epidermal Wound Repair in Embryos B.A., Mathematics (1997) & B.A., Computer Science (1997), University of California, Berkeley Research Interests Applied mechanics, constitutive modeling, biomechanics, applied optimal control Technical skills Software: FreeFem++ (Finite Element software), Mathematica, MATLAB, MPI (parallel computing interface), XMAPLE Languages: Fortran, C/C++ Experience Sept 2007 - present Associate Specialist (Researcher & Lecturer) Department of Mathematics, School of Physical Sciences, University of California, Irvine Study constitutive and biological behavior of skin in mammalian embryos Study human learning processes using optimal control theory Model constitutive behavior of growing soft tissue Teach courses in single- and multi-variable calculus July 2004 - Sept 2007 Postdoctoral Researcher Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine Studied constitutive and biological behavior of Angiosperm plants Studied genetics of cancer growth using optimal control theory Summer, 2003 Mathematics Instructor Department of Mathematics, School of Physical Sciences, University of California, Irvine Taught a course in ordinary differential equations Jul 1999 - Dec 1999 Data Mining Analyst Western Digital Designed complex database queries for quality control of hard drives Trained employees in algorithms and data mining Aug 1998 - Jan 1999 Programmer and Numerical Analyst Department of Anesthesiology, University of California, Irvine Healthcare Used numerical methods to study diffusion at the lung blood-gas barrier Invited talks 2007 The 9th US Congress on Computational Mechanics, San Francisco, CA 2006 43rd Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, State College, PA, USA 2006 15th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Boulder, CO, USA Conferences and workshops 2007 National Institutes of Health: Annual NLM Meeting, Stanford, CA, USA 2005 International Conference for Systems Biology 2005, Boston, MA, USA 2005 National Institutes of Health: Annual NLM Meeting, Bethesda, MD, USA 2002 International School on Biomathematics, Bioengineering and Clinical Aspects of Blood Flow (Summer Workshop) 2000 MSRI/PMMB Short Course: Mathematical and Computational Challenges in Molecular and Cell Biology (Summer Workshop) Affiliations Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Member Honors and Awards 2004 NIH BIT Postdoctoral Fellowship Fall 2003 Dissertation Fellowship Publications (2008) A. Sadovsky, A mathematical model of tracheal suction with compensating injection (in progress) (2008) N.L. Komarova, A.V. Sadovsky, F.Y.M. Wan, Genetic Instability in Cancer: an Optimal Control Problem (in progress) (2007) A. Sadovsky, F. Wan, The Closing of an Elliptical Wound (in progress) (2007) A.V. Sadovsky, Retention-efficient rates of information presentation: a problem in optimal control (submitted) (2007) N.L. Komarova, A.V. Sadovsky, F.Y.M. Wan, Selective pressures for and against genetic instability in cancer: a time-dependent problem, Interface Journal of the Royal Society, 10.1098/rsif.2007.1054 (2007) Sadovsky A, Baldi P, Wan F. A Theoretical Study of the In Vivo Mechanical Properties of Angiosperm Roots: Constitutive Theories and Methods of Parameter Estimation, J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 129(3), 483-487. (2007) Sadovsky A, Wan F. The Elastodynamics of Embryonic Epidermal Wound Closure, Studies in Applied Mathematics 118 (4), 365-395. (2006) Sadovsky A, Wan F. The Elastodynamics of Embryonic Epidermal Wound Closure, Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, State College, PA, USA (2005) A. Sadovsky, A. Campilho, M. Heisler, E. Meyerowitz, E. Mjolsness, P. Baldi. Biostatics of Arabidopsis thaliana: 1-Dimensional Mathematical Models of the Growing Root, International Conference for Systems Biology 2005, Boston, MA, USA [Author order listed as printed on poster] (2004) Agrawal V, Gor V, Heisler M, Jonnson H, Meyerowitz EM, Mjolsness E, Reddy GV, Sadovsky A, Shapiro BE. Developmental Modeling of the Arabidopsis Shoot Apical Meristem, 44th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology, Washington, DC, USA, Dec 4-8, 2004. [Author order listed as printed on poster] (2004) A. Sadovsky. A Biodynamical Study of Epidermal Wound Repair in Embryos, Ph.D. Dissertation Citizenship U.S. Citizen