PhD student
Department of Computing and Information Systems
The University of Melbourne
General Information
I'm a PhD student under the supervision of professor Lars Kulik and professor Rao Kotagiri at the University of Melbourne. My research interests include working with spatial data: its analysis, algorithms and visualization. Currently, my PhD project is exploring hitchhiking and trying to solve an optimal route problem for a hitchhiker.
Contact
Phone: +61420432034 E-mail: Address: Office 6.13, Doug McDonell Building,
University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia LinkedIn Github Blog
Education
2014 - present: PhD in Computer Science at university of Melbourne, Australia.
  Oct - Dec 2017: research visit at ITI Algorithmik I research group, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
2012 - 2014: MSc in Computer Science at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. GPA: 4.00
2007 - 2011: BSc (with honours) in Computer Science at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine. GPA: 3.97
Published papers
Oleksii Vedernikov, Lars Kulik, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Optimal Route Planning. IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2017.PDF
Oleksii Vedernikov, Lars Kulik, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Pick-Up Locations. Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards journal, 2016. Article link, PDF
Oleksii Vedernikov. Usage of annotation tags in the problem of mining similar users. MobiSocial workshop at IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2015., PDF
Working experience
2nd semester 2016: COMP10001 Foundations of Computing tutor, Janet Clarke Hall, University of Melbourne
1st semester 2015: GEOM90018 Spatial Databases demonstrator, University of Melbourne
2nd semester 2013: Computer Science and Engineering Projects (I) teaching assistant, National Chiao Tung University
1st semester 2013: Introduction to Databases teaching assistant, National Chiao Tung University
04.2012 - 06.2012: Saprun comp, IOS software engineer intern. Developed libraries to display various graphs and tables for a corporative iOS app using Objective-C with Cocoa Touch and UIKit.
Awards
2nd place at Microsoft Coding Competition at UniMelb in 2016 (among 36 teams)
2nd place at Microsoft Coding Competition at UniMelb in 2015 (among 31 teams)
Academic achievement award to the best student of EECS department, National Chiao Tung University, 2013
Best thesis award in a group at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 2011
Technologies currently used
Python (with Scipy stack)
JavaScript + Leaflet
R
PostgreSQL (with PostGIS + pgRouting)
Previously used: Objective-C (with Cocoa Touch/UIKit), C++ with STL and boost, Matlab; QGIS, ArcGIS.
Languages
Ukrainian - native speaker
Russian - native speaker
English - fluent
Chinese - beginner
Miscellaneous
Apart from science, my 3 main hobbies are:
Traveling. I've been to 37 countries so far, you can check my travel map here.
Soccer. I used to keeping track of the goals and assists I scored during my first 3 years in Australia, and the summary could be found here.
Reading. Here you can find about ~200 books I've read over the past 10 years, look up my favourites or recommend me any to read next.
Created by Alex Vedernikov.
Last modified: 12/04/2018.