I did my undergraduate and graduate studies with the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics at Tbilisi State University, Georgia, USSR. I graduated with Master of Science (with Distinction) in Applied Mathematics with major in Computer Science in 1976 (Thesis:"Requirements Analysis and Specifications Development for Data Bank and Computer Network in the Autonomous Republic"). I have done my PhD course in computer science at the Moscow Institute for Control Sciences (Russian abbreviation IPU) (former IAT - Institute of Automatics & Telemechanics) at the USSR Academy of Sciences. I publicly "defended" my PhD dissertation at the Georgian Academy of Sciences (Georgia, USSR) in 1987 (PhD Thesis: "Research and Development of Principles for Computer-Aided Database Design").
My professional career in computing spans more than 33 years. I worked with Soviet -designed and -made computers of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generations, as well as with numerous models of IBM mainframe compatible computers. I have been studying, mastering, modifying and crashing all sorts of operating systems, databases, software products and utilities. Since 1987 I added PCs and Unix boxes into my collection. My most recent job before coming to Australia was with the Institute of Computational Mathematics of Georgian Academy of Sciences where I headed the System Software Laboratory. Concurrently with that I did a number of consulting projects and educated computer science students at the Tbilisi State University.
Since coming to Australia in 1991 and until beginning of 2009, Ive been teaching and doing research at Monash University.
Since 2001 I've been collaborating with Luleå University of Technology (Luleå tekniska universitet), Sweden as an Adjunct Professor.
Since early 2008 I've been appointed a Chaired Professor (Personal Chair, Amnesföreträdare) at the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at LTU
My adorable wife of more than 30 years - Professor Frada Burstein - is working at Monash University.
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