Sergey Sarkisov, PhD
 Professor, Mathematics
 

I was born in 1986 in Kiev, Ukraine.  At the age of 7, I moved to Huntsville, Alabama.  While attending Virgil I. Grissom HIgh School, I co-lead my math team and initiated the idea of holding a national math contest, now called the Rocket City Math League.  Later, after completing my undergraduate degrees in Physics and Mathematics and teaching olympiad math at MIST Academy for two years under the leadership of Educational Engineer, Mathew Crawford, I relocated to Houston, Texas to pursue my PhD in mathematics at the University of Houston.  On December of 2017, I received my PhD in Mathematics, working under an NSF grant for the renown mathematicians and my advisors, Robert G. Azencott and Ilya Timofeyev.  My work is related to statistics, bioinformatics, data processing, stochasticity, Monte Carlo time-series, rare-event mutations, and large deviation theory.  In fact, I have discovered and developed (via Matlab) the Algorithm to detect multiple mutant fitnesses and mutation rates, the essential parameters for understanding adaptive growth of living organisms.  Next, I taught olympiad math classes for Momentum Learning with some of most talented educators (such as Dr. Osman Nal) and brightest minds in the nation.  In the Fall of 2018, I began teaching mathematics as a full-time professor for Houston Community College.  Currently I continue to teach students at HCC and have a mathematics paper pending for publication.

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