Curriculum Vitae

Surname: First name: Date of birth: Marital status: Nationality: Permanent address: Phone: Present address: Phone: E-mail address: WWW page:	Rybnikov Vladimir 13.08.1960 Married Wife: Rybnikova Olga (22.07.1960) Daughters: Ekaterina (30.10.1986), Tatjana (12.06.1989) Russian Klara Zetkin Str, 25-2-126, 125130 Moscow, Russia. (095)154-88-27 DESY, HERA-B/F15, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany. (040) 8998-4846 Vladimir.Rybnikov@desy.de http://www.desy.de/~rybnikov/

• 1977-1983 - Moscow Computer Engineering and Research Institute.
  
• 1991 - Ph.D. degree.
  

Technical summary:

• Application implementation on widely used commercial operating systems: UNIX (ULTRIX, IRIX, Solaris, Linux, DEC OSF/1), VAX VMS, DOS, Windows.
• Hardware near and firmware related real-time operating systems: VxWorks, LynxOS.
• Programming languages: C, C++, FORTRAN, Parallel C and OCCAM for transputers, etc.
  
• Shell script languages: TCSH, Z shell, Tcl/Tk, Perl.
  
• GUI system: X11, Motif.
  
• WWW tools: HTML, GCI, etc.
  
• Data Bases: MS Access.
  
• Electronics hardware design and simulation: PCAD 4.5, ABEL.

Experience:

• Research worker, 1992 - present:
  The Nuclear Electronics and Automation Laboratory.
  Nuclear Physics Institute of Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
  

  September 1, 1997 - August 31, 1999 as a Scientific Associate at HERA-B experiment.
  September 1, 2001 - present, Scientific Stuff at DESY
  A member of the HERA-B Data AcQuisition (DAQ) group (DESY, Hamburg):
  

  • HERA-B DAQ group coordination;
  • HERA-B Run Control System design:
    ("DAQ Online Software and the Run Control System in the HERA-B Experiment",
    Computing in High Energy Physics, CHEP'98, Chicago, IL, USA, August 31- September 4, 1998).
    ("The Hera-B Slow and Run Control System",
    International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems, ICALEPCS'99, Trieste, Italy, October 4 - 8, 1999).
    
    • State Machine Control (SMC) package;
    • Process manager control software for the RC system;
    • User interfaces design for the SMC and the RC system;
  • Design and maintenance of the online software of common use for HERA-B
  • HERA-B online software management.
    • Administration of the CVS repository for HERA-B online software.
    • Distribution of the online code (both source and binary) for major Unix-platform employed at HERA-B (Linux, IRIX, Solaris, LynxOS).

  August,1993 - August 31, 1997 an associated member of the ZEUS CDAQ group (DESY, Hamburg).
  

  • ZEUS Slow Control Detector (SCD) design (ZEUS Note 96-061 18/07/96):
    • the First Level Trigger Interface (FLI) module design.
    • the FLI test and driver software design.
      
  • The ZEUS Third Level Trigger (TLT) upgrade:
    • the state transition control software design
      ("A FDDI Based Processor Farm for the ZEUS Third Level Trigger", The 2nd International Data Acquisition Workshop (DAQ96) on Networked Data Acquisition systems, Osaka, Japan, 13-15 Nov, 1996).
      
    • the physics data transport layer software design.
      (ZEUS Note 95-152 21/11/95).
      
  • ZEUS Network Switch Connections Project:
    • the software simulation of the ZEUS data-flow from the components to the TLT nodes for logical models of the current and a FDDI based EVB.
      (ZEUS Note 96-094 25/09/96)
    • the software design and testing the model of the distributed Event Builder based on the GIGAswitch and Silicon Graphics workstations applying FDDI.
      (ZEUS Note 97-025 21/04/97)
  • The hardware and firmware tests:
    • The SCSI transputer TR801 Caplin interface.
      First user experience of this interface at ZEUS.Important issues were maximum throughput from VME memory to data Archive.
    • The PME FDDI1 .
      Testing throughput of concurrent network and VME bus data transfer.
      (ZEUS Note 95-081 01/07/95) , (ZEUS Note 95-102 15/08/95)
  • The ZEUS Slow Control upgrade:
    • Publishing Slow Control Data base (MS Access) to the WWW.
    • The Slow Control Data base component information loader.
      The design of the TCP/IP based server for MS Access data base (Windows NT, TCP/IP).
      The design of the slow control client for obtaining the component information from the Slow Control data base.

• Research Worker, 1990 - 1992:
  International Center on Informatics and Electronics, Moscow, Russia.
  
  • Industrial robot systems:
    • A step motor module and optoisolated input/output register module design for PCs. The driver software design for the modules.
      
  • Real-time video systems:
    • A frame grabber module design for PCs. Software design for the module.
      

• Hardware Designer, 1983 - 1985,
  Senior Hardware Designer, 1985 - 1990:
  Computer Research Center of Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
  
  • The hybrid spectrometer (SVD) in Protvino (IHEP):
    • Fast FE electronics design in the CAMAC-COMPEX standard.
    • CAMAC-COMPEX interface- and stand-alone controller design for PDP, LSI, IBM mainframe computers. The controllers were used for the computer connection to the experiment.
    • The inter crate connection controller design. The controller was used for the connection from the central crate to the FE electronics crates.
  • The MSU computer interconnection system of common use:
    • On the base of the interface controllers mentioned above a prototype system has been implemented for the interconnection among the computers used in the Computer Research Center.
      
  • A Hardware Designer Remote Automated Desk:
    • On the base of custom designed CAMAC-COMPEX serial line controller and interface controller for a PDP computer a remote access to the computer resources has been provided for an electronics hardware designer.