Education
Ph.D. in Physics
University of Texas at San Antonio and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
2013 - 2017
Texas, USA
Thesis: “Extending the scientific reach of Advanced LIGO by compensating for temporal variations in the calibration of the detectors.”
M.S. in Physics
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
2011 - 2013
Texas, USA
Conducted research on the modeling of photonic crystal nanocavities.
B.S. in Automation and Control Systems
Satpayev Kazakh National Technical University
2001 - 2006
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Studied the Reed-Solomon data encoding method and implemented it in a visual simulation software.
Recognitions and awards in academia and education
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- 2018 LIGO Laboratory Award for Excellence in Detector Characterization and Calibration, Honorable Mention | LIGO Laboratory, Caltech
- 2016 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics | Breakthrough Prize Foundation
- 2016 Gruber Prize in Cosmology | Gruber Foundation, Yale University
- 2015 LIGO Scientific Collaboration Fellow at the LIGO Hanford Observatory | LIGO Scientific Collaboration
- 2014 CGWA/LHO Fellowship in Instrument Science for Gravitational Wave Astronomy | Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, the University of Texas at Brownsville and the LIGO Laboratory Directorate, Caltech
- 2007 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finalist | Association for Computing Machinery
- 2006 and 2005 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contests, Northern Eurasia, 1st place in Kazakhstan | Association for Computing Machinery