This document provides a curriculum vitae for Alexander Nikolayevich Zhdanov. It includes his contact information, education history, employment history, participation in open source projects, university projects, skills, languages, and interests. His education includes a Master's degree in Informatics from Technische Universität München in 2014 and a Bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Moscow State Technical University in 2009. His employment history includes roles in research, development, and quality assurance from 2014 to the present.

1. Curriculum Vitae
Name: Alexander Nikolayevich Zhdanov
Address: Cap Beaulieu, 6 rue de Bellevue, ap. 206, 35000 Rennes
Cell Phone: +33 07 84 42 59 65
Email: alexander.jdanoff@gmail.com
Date of Birth: 29 May 1979
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-zhdanov-9921a89a/
Education & Qualifications:
2011 – 2014 Master of Sciences, Informatics (passed with merit). Technische Universität
München. Master degree research: “Efficiency Optimization of Realtime GPU
Raytracing in Modeling of Car2Car Communication”
2007 – 2009 Bachelor of technics and technology in direction “informatics and computer
engineering” (with honors). Moscow State Technical University. Bachelor degree
research: “A subsystem of heuristic analysis in branch and bound algorithm”
1996 - 2003 Engineer, optoelectronic devices and systems. Moscow State Technical
University
Employment history:
Sep. 2017 –
July 2019
Researcher/PhD student
INRIA, Rennes, Bretagne Atlantique
topic: “Generation of Static YARA-Signatures Using Genetic Algorithm”
tasks:
• development and implementation of algorithms for generation of static yara-
signatures in python
• analysis of scientific literature, preparing presentations/writing articles
summary: https://www.slideshare.net/AlexanderZhdanov1/generation-of-
static-yarasignatures-using-genetic-algorithm
• conduction of experiments with malware and cleanware datasets
• distribution building
tools: python, yara, go, bash, matplotlib, latex
technical environment: linux, docker

2. Sep. 2016 –
Apr. 2017
Senior researcher
Universidad de León, VARP research group
topic: “Identification of Network Attacks in Honeypot Traffic using Unsupervised
Anomaly Detection”
tasks:
• analysis of scientific literature, writing reports, development of attack models
• installation and configuration of honeypots
• organization of data gathering and remote uploading, bash scripting
• analysis of packet header layers, automatic data extraction
• implementation of clustering and outlier detection algorithms on gpu
• implementation of traffic difference and outlier detection algorithms on cpu
• implementation of data loading, data processing and traffic aggregation
• benchmarking and testing, implementation of data visualization routines
• calculation of detection rates
tools: python, pyshark, tcpdump, numba, nfdump, editcap
technical environment: linux, anaconda, pyspark, mysql
Oct. 2014 -
Mar. 2015
Java Developer
CST AG, Research & Development, Branch Office, Munich
achievements: integrated a vba macro handling mechanism into a legacy java
cad/cae application
tasks:
• reverse engineering of the application's data structure in cooperation with
other team members
• design and implementation vba data (de)serialization mechanism
• optimization, profiling, testing and bug fixing
• participation in scrum and sprint meetings, writing documentation
tools: java, eclipse, perforce, visualvm, versionone, doxygen
technical environment: windows, jvm
Jul. 2013 —
Oct.2014
Java Developer (Workstudent)
CST AG, Research & Development, Branch Office, Munich
2010 – 2011 Java developer
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., representative office , Russia
achievements: optimized an operation of a web-page overloaded with an
excessive number of ajax requests via input data filtering

3. tasks:
• development of uis
• bug fixing in cooperation with testers team
• setup of development environment
tools: java, gwt, jsp, spring mvc, html, css, xml, xslt, javascript, eclipse, oxygen,
svn, jira, maven
technical environment: windows, tomcat, jboss
2008 – 2010 QA specialist
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., representative office , Russia
achievements: implemented an automated test suite for wiley online library
tasks:
• investigating, reporting and tracking defects, setup of test environments
• development and maintenance o f automated test suites, analysis of the
resulting data, writing sql scripts
• black box testing, execution of existing testing scenarios, writing of new
testing scenarios
• communication with testing team (ealing, uk)
tools: java, testng, selenium(grid), borland silktest, autoit, hibernate, apache derby,
eclipse, netbeans, svn, jira, bugzilla, squirrel
technical environment: windows, jvm
Participation in Open Software Projects:
May 2015 –
Aug. 2015
Scribe (GNUnet): started an implementation of an application level
multicast in gnunet: https://github.com/anzhdanov/split-stream-gnunet
tasks:
• analysis of java scribe implementation: https://trac.freepastry.org/
• development and implementation of scribe interface
• design and implementation of the protocol for a group subscription
mechanism using distributed hash table (dht)
tools: c, svn, git, gdb, automake
technical environment: linux
University projects at TUM:
• Master thesis: “Efficiency Optimization of Realtime GPU Raytracing in
Modeling of Car2Car Communication”: Optimization of an existing software system for
the realtime VANET simulation.
• interdisciplinary project: “evaluation of freeHand SPECT images depending on

4. different reconstruction parameters” at “SurgicEye” GmbH: Investigation and
implementation of algorithms for medical image comparison (change detection).
• Porting “iodine” to ipv6 (Advanced computer networking): Implementation of ipv6
tunneling over dns, porting dns to udpv6.
Skills:
• python, java, c/c++, go, matlab/octave
• gnu/linux, svn, git, gdb, emacs, automake
• bugzilla, jira, gnuplot, matplotlib, latex, doxygen
Languages:
Russian (native), English (B2-C1), German (A1.2), French (A1), Spanish (A1)
Interests:
cybersecurity, machine learning, networking, p2p