Education:

• Ph.D. in mathematics, University of Virginia,  August 2002;
• Diploma with honors, Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Belarusian State University, June 1996.

Employment:

• Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of  North Carolina at Greensboro, August 2008     present;
• Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of  North Carolina at Greensboro, August 2002     May 2008;
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia, September 1998     July 2002.

Research Area:

Teaching experience:

• Entire calculus sequence for science majors, non-science majors, and engineers;
• differential equations;
• introduction to mathematical analysis;
• linear algebra;
• abstract algebra;
  
• graduate level algebra.

Publications:

1. Second bounded cohomology and bounded generation of wreath products (with B. Sury), submitted.
2. Commutativity degrees of wreath products of finite abelian groups (with B. Sury), Bull. Aust. Math. Soc. 77 (2008), no. 1, 31  36.
3. Bounded generation of S-arithmetic subgroups of isotropic orthogonal groups over number fields (with A.S. Rapinchuk), J. Number Theory 119 (2006), no. 1, 28  48.
   
4. SL_n(F[x]) is not boundedly generated by elementary matrices: explicit proof, Electron. J. Linear Algebra 11 (2004), 162  167.
5. On bounded cohomology of amalgamated products of groups, Int. J. Math. Math. Sci. (2004), no. 40, 2103  2122.
   
6. Bounded generation of some S-arithmetic orthogonal groups (with A.S. Rapinchuk), C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Ser. I Math 333 (2001),  no. 5, 395  398.

Invited Talks/Conference Talks:

1. Bounded generation of S-arithmetic subgroups of isotropic orthogonal groups over number fields. AMS Eastern Section Meeting, University of Delaware, Spring 2005.
   
2. On bounded cohomology of amalgamated products of groups. AMS Southeastern Section Meeting, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Fall 2003.
3. Witt's Theorem for local lattices. SERMON, Spring 2003.
4. Bounded generation of S-arithmetic orthogonal groups. Karcher Colloquium, University of Oklahoma, Spring 2002.
5. SL₃(C[x]) is not boundedly generated by elementaries: explicit version of van der Kallen's proof. Algebra Seminar, University of Oklahoma, Spring 2002.

Prizes, Honors, Scholarships, Fellowships, and Grants:

1. New Faculty Grant, University of North Carolina Greensboro, 2003.
2. Travel Research Grant, University of Virginia, Spring 2002.
3. Dupont Fellowship, University of Virginia, Fall 1999     Spring 2000, Fall 2000     Spring 2001.
4. Summer Research Support, University of Virginia, 1998  2000.
5. Pratt Fellowship, University of Virginia, Fall 1997     Spring 1999.
6. Selected and named as a Soros Student by the International Soros Science Education Program in recognition and appreciation of outstanding achievements in the study of science at the university level,  Fall 1994.
7. Honors Fellowship, Belarusian State University, Fall 1991     Spring 1996.
8. Winner of a nationwide mathematical olympiad, Minsk, Belarus, Spring 1991.