Alex Vedernikov PhD graduate Department of Computing and Information Systems The University of Melbourne

General Information

This webpage was mostly used during my PhD and is no longer regularly updated. Please reach me on LinkedIn.
I completed PhD under the supervision of professor Lars Kulik and professor Rao Kotagiri at the University of Melbourne in 2019.
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:
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Work experience

• Mar 2022 - current: GapMaps,Senior Data Scientist
• Nov 2019 - Mar 2022: Aurecon, Data Scientist
• Oct 2018 - Jan 2019: Rome2rio, Data Science Intern

Education

• 2014 - 2019: 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

1. Oleksii Vedernikov, Lars Kulik, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao. Optimal route planning for stochastic time-dependent hitchhiker's problem. Journal of Location Based Services, 2019. PDF
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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

Tutoring 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

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

• Traveling. I've been to 48 countries so far, you can check my travel map here.
• Soccer. I used to keep 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: 19/04/2023.