Resume - Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Modeling, Machine Learning,

1. Oleg Kogan
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Oleg Kogan, Ph.D.
9 Village Circle, Apt. 7 Ithaca, NY 14850 Ph: (216) 409-4602 E-mail: obk5@cornell.edu
SKILLS, STRENGTHS AND EXPERTISE
Technical Skills: strong analytical skills, expertise in mathematical methods, mathematical modeling, theoretical
estimations and theoretical analysis. Computational skills: C/C++, Mathematica, MatLab.
My strength is the ability to reduce a complicated phenomenon to a simple model, which leads to the quantitative
understanding and qualitative or conceptual picture. Ability to conceptualize, formulate well-posed questions to
be solved with creative analytical techniques and a command of the big picture.
Worked or published in: Nonlinear Dynamics, Statistical Physics, Materials Physics, Stochastic Processes, Fluctuations
out of Equilibrium, Nanomechanics, Reaction-Transport Systems, Population Dynamics, Complex Systems.
Communication skills: ability to present information in a clear, concise way; ability to distill a complicated
phenomenon to a simplified conceptual or analytical model through a focus on the essence.
EDUCATION
California Institute of Technology, Ph.D., Pasadena, CA 2009
Case Western Reserve University, B.S., Magna Cum Laude Cleveland, OH 2001
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Clear Science Corporation, Dryden, NY
Computational Scientist 06/2015 - Present
• Development of efficient reduced-order models of aerodynamic phenomena for industrial clients.
- Discovered a way to speed-up the computation by a factor of 10 using ideas that I borrowed from
theoretical physics; currently developing the implementation of this method.
- Write model training and calibration code in C++
- Perform data analysis in MatLab
PreScouter
Volunteering Scholar Consultant 03/2015 - Present
• Provide scouting and advising service about cutting edge science and technology for business clients.
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Visiting Scientist 11/2014 – Present
Postdoctoral Associate 11/2012 – 11/2014
• Stochastic and nonlinear dynamics of diseases in plant and animal populations.
- Stochastic competition between multiple disease strains: new model reduction method and predictions.
- Developed an analytical framework for modeling of long-range spread of plant pathogens.
This framework has applications to catalysis, biophysics, biosensors and other biomedical applications.
University of Pennsylvania and University of Chicago, Philadelphia, PA
Postdoctoral Scholar 01/2010 – 09/2012
• Computational study of jammed systems – a model of glass-forming solids.
• Study of localization behavior of vibrations of jammed packings and disordered lattices.
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Short-term research associate 01/2009 – 01/2010
• Large fluctuations and rare events in nonequilibrium systems.
• Frequency divider cascade of nonlinear resonators.
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Graduate Researcher 06/2002 – 12/2008
• Collective dynamics of nonequilibrium systems
- Collective behavior in a chain of nonlinear oscillators via a renormalization group treatment.

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• Stochastic dynamics of nonequilibrium systems.
- Scaling crossovers in activated escape in driven nonlinear oscillators.
- Large fluctuations and rare events in nonlinear systems.
• Nonlinear dynamics: other
- Basins of attraction of a nonlinear Pt nanowire mechanical resonator.
- Controlling transitions in a Duffing Oscillator by sweeping parameters in time.
- Optimal light beams and mirror shapes for future LIGO interferometer.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
California Institute of Technology
Teaching Assistant
Course: Methods of Complex analysis Fall 2007, Fall 2008
Course: Ordinary Differential Equations Winter, 2008
Course: Partial Differential Equations Spring, 2008
Course: Kinetic Processes in Materials Spring, 2007
Course: Introductory Physics Spring, 2003
Course: Statistical Mechanics Winter, 2003
California Institute of Technology 2006-2009
Mentor to individual undergraduate students
Cornell University 09/2013 - Present
Mentor to individual graduate students
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
• Oleg Kogan, Kevin O’Keeffe, Chris Myers, David Schneider, Theory of long-range biotic transport.
Publication in preparation for Phys. Rev. Lett. Presented at an APS March Meeting in March, 2015.
• Oleg Kogan, Michael Khasin, Baruch Meerson, David Schneider, Christopher R. Myers, Two-strain
competition in quasi-neutral stochastic disease dynamics. Phys. Rev. E 90, 042149 (2014).
• B. Scott Strachan, Steven W. Shaw, Oleg Kogan, Subharmonic Resonance Cascades in a Class of
Coupled Resonators. J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. 8, 041015 (2013).
• Oleg Kogan, The onset of singularities in the pattern of fluctuational paths of a nonequilibrium system.
arXiv:1110.2820. Generalization jointly with M.I. Dykman is in preparation for Phys. Rev. Lett.
• Oleg Kogan, Jeffrey L. Rogers, M. C. Cross, G. Refael, Renormalization Group Approach to Oscillator
Synchronization. Phys. Rev. E 80, 036206 (2009).
• Inna Kozinsky, Henk Postma, Oleg Kogan, Ali Husain, Michael Cross, Michael Roukes, Basins of
Attraction of a Nonlinear Nanomechanical Resonator. Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 207201 (2007).
MAJOR CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
• The Tony and Pat Houghton Conference on Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics, 2015.
• Fluctuations in Population Biology, Epidemiology and Evolution (invited speaker), Leiden, 2014.
• Numerous American Physical Society March Meetings – largest annual physics conference in the US.
• Numerous semi-annual Rutgers Meetings on Statistical Mechanics.
• Numerous Dynamics Days conferences on theory and applications of Nonlinear Dynamics.
• Presentation to a Boeing representative for a grant award (approved), 2007.
RECENT AWARDS
• Omidyar Fellowship Competition at the Santa Fe Institute, Finalist (8/300+) 2012
• Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to Israel offer (declined) 2008