Stanislav Kolenikov: Curriculum Vitae

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Date of birth: 23 April 1973	Nationality: Russian
Home page: http://www.missouri.edu/~kolenikovs/	Work e-mail: kolenikovs at missouri.edu
Daytime phone: (+1-573) 882-1577	Fax:(+1-573) 884-5524
Mailing address: 146 Midddlebush, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211-6100

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Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia.

CURRENT POSITION
Aug 2005 - present	Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia
PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS / EXPERTISE
	applied statistics: spatial and environmental statistics; linear regression, regression diagnostics; survey sampling and estimation; missing data
	econometrics: applied microeconometrics, program evaluation
	economics: income distribution, inequality and poverty measurement, socio-economic status
	social sciences: structural equation models with latent variables; survey methodology
	statistical programming: Stata software.
EDUCATION
2000-2005	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Statistics, Ph.D. (2005) Comprehensive written examinations: 2001; coursework requirements: 2004; dissertation proposal: October 2004; dissertation defense: July 2005. Title: "A modification of the EM algorithm with applications to spatio-temporal modeling". Advisor: Prof. Richard L. Smith
1997-2000	Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, Moscow, Post-Graduate Course. Advisor: Prof. S.A.Aivazian
1996-1998	New Economic School, Moscow, Russia MA in Economics awarded July 1998. GPA 4.7 out of 5.0, Diploma with honors, ranked 6 out of 35 Master's Thesis: Statistical Methods of the Quality of Life Assessment
1990-1996	Moscow University of Electronic Technology (MIET), Zelenograd, Russia Diploma of Higher Education in Semiconductor Physics and Technology With Honors Physical engineer in VLSI technology, GPA 4.9 out of 5.0, one of top 10 students out of 250 (no official ranking is provided by the institution). Graduation Paper: The ANOVA-based Design of Statistical Quality Control System for Microelectronic Production
1988-1990	High Physics and Mathematics School #1030 (Zelenograd, Moscow), ranked 2 out of 50
Additional
2004-2005	Certificate Program in Survey Methodology, Odum Institute for Research in Social Sciences, UNC, Chapel Hill. Program directors: Kenneth Bollen, Director of IRSS, and Paul Biemer, Associate Director of Social Surveys.
1999	NetCourses NC151 and NC152 on Advanced Stata programming
1993-1995	Courses on English-Russian technical translation, MIEE. Certified technical translator.
PUBLICATIONS
Peer reviewed
2008	Constrained vs. Unconstrained Estimation in Structural Equation Modeling', with Victoria Savalei, Psychological Methods, vol. 13 (2), pp. 150--170, 2008.
2005	`A Decomposition Analysis of Regional Poverty in Russia', with Anthony Shorrocks, Review of Development Economics, 9 (1), 25--46, 2005, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9361.2005.00262.x. A version of the paper is also published as a chapter of Spatial Disparities in Human Development: Perspectives from Asia, edited by R. Kanbur, A. Venables, G. Wan, United Nations University Press, 2005, ISBN 92-808-1122-3.
2003	`Spatio-temporal modeling of PM2.5 data with missing values'. With Richard L. Smith and Lawrence H. Cox, Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 108, no. D24, 9004, doi:10.1029/2002JD002914, 2003 Awards: ASA Student Travel Award (2002), CDC/ATSDR Best Applied Papers Award (2004) American Geophysical Union index terms: 0305 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Aerosols and particles (0345, 4801); 0345 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Pollution-urban and regional (0305); 3210 Mathematical Geophysics: Modeling Mathematical subject classification: 62H11 Directional data; spatial statistics; 62M30 Spatial processes; 62P12 Applications to environmental and related topics; 86A32 Geostatistics
2001	`Workers' Heterogeneity and Risk Aversion: A Segmentation Model of the Russian Labor Market', with Irena Grosfeld, Claudia Senik-Leygonie, Thierry Verdier and Elena Paltseva, Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 29, pp. 230--256, doi:10.1006/jcec.2001.1711, 2001.
199	`Efficiency of the Conservative Treatment in Idiopathic Scoliosis: Mathematical Models of the Effect of the Brace Treatment in Patients with Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis'. With G.P.Dmitrieva, R.D.Nazarova, A.A.Peresetsky, E.Paltseva. In collective volume Research Into Spinal Deformities, IOS Press Amsterdam, ed. I.A.F.Stokes, 2, 1999.
In progress
..	Testing Negative Error Variances: Is a Heywood Case a Symptom of Misspecification?, with Ken Bollen, submitted.
..	Constrained estimation in structural equation modeling: options for implementation, distribution of test statistics, and pros and cons, with Vika Savalei, submitted.
..	Applications of quasi-Monte Carlo methods in survey inference, to be presented soon at Joint Statistical Meetings.
Lecture notes/monographs
..	Applied Econometric Analysis With Stata. Lecture notes, 2000, updated in 2003. Published by New Economic School in the NES Lecture Notes series (KL/2001/00). See Contents for some details.
Working papers, proceedings, ...
An unusually extensive set of references can be found at Google Scholar search. Most of economic papers are registered in the RePEc system.
..	Applications of quasi-Monte Carlo methods in inference for complex survey data, ASA Survey Research Methods Section Proceedings, 2007
..	On reuse of clusters in repeated studies, with Gustavo Angeles. Statistics Canada International Symposium Series, 2007.
..	Specification Tests with Heywood Cases, with K. Bollen and V. Savalei, 2006 Procedings of American Statistical Association [CD-ROM], Alexandria.
..	A Modification of the EM Algorithm with Application to Spatio-Temporal Models, 2006 Procedings of American Statistical Association [CD-ROM], Alexandria.
..	On reuse of clusters in repeated studies, with Gustavo Angeles. Working Paper of MEASURE/Evaluation project, No. WP-05-87, Carolina Population Center, UNC.
..	The Use of Discrete Data in Principal Component Analysis: Theory, Simulations, and Applications to Socioeconomic Indices, with Gustavo Angeles. Working Paper of MEASURE/Evaluation project, No. WP-04-85, Carolina Population Center, UNC.
..	The Use of Discrete Data in Principal Component Analysis: Theory, Simulations, and Applications to Socioeconomic Indices, with Gustavo Angeles. 2004 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, [CD-ROM], Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.
..	A Decomposition Analysis of Regional Poverty in Russia, with Anthony Shorrocks, WIDER discussion paper No. DP2003/74, also forthcoming in Review of Development Economics.
..	Spatio-Temporal Modelling of the Longitudinal PM2.5 data with missing values, with Richard L. Smith. 2002 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, [CD-ROM], Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.
..	Modeling of Expenditure Distribution By a Lognormal Mixture, with S.A.Aivazian. 2001 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Statistical Computing Section [CD-ROM], Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.
..	Review of Stata 7. Published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 16 (5), 637--646 (2001). Links to Wiley (your institution must be subscribed to this journal at Wiley to get the full text), to the JAE Data Archive and to IDEAS.
..	Poverty and Expenditure Differentiation Of Russian Population, with S. A. Aivazian. Working Paper No. 01/01E , Economics Education and Research Consortium, Moscow, 2001.
..	Child benefits and child poverty. With K.Yudaeva and I.Denisova. Working paper No. 2000/4, RECEP, Moscow, 2000.
..	Dynamism and Inertia of the Russian Labor Market: a model of segmentation. With I.Grosfeld, C.Senik-Leygonie, T.Verdier, and E.Paltseva. DELTA discussion paper No. 1999-03, Paris, 1999. Also published as William Davidson Institute working paper No. 246, RECEP working paper No. 1999/2 and CEPR working paper No. 2224. Published in Journal of Comparative Economics, June 2001.
..	The Methods of Quality of Life Assessment. Working paper #BSP/99/015. Best student papers, NES-CEMI, Moscow, 1999. Full text in PDF format.
Minor Publications
..	Stata modules at IDEAS archive of software components.
..	Inequality and Poverty in Russia After August 1998 Crisis. Russian Economic Trends, 3Q 99
..	International Conference on Applied Statistics Theses, Saratov, 1998
..	International Microelectronic Conference Theses, MIEE, 1996
Research in Progress
..	Environmental and Spatio-Temporal Statistics, with R. L. Smith, UNC, Department of Statistics
..	Statistical Issues in Population Studies, with Gustavo Angeles, CPC
..	Misspecification, Heywood cases, and estimation on the boundary in structural equations with latent variables, with Kenneth Bollen
..	Regional Dimensions and Poverty Trends in Russia, with A. Shorrocks, WIDER
..	Stata activities: programming, consulting, teaching, reviewing.
See also on-line research materials
WORK EXPERIENCE: Research
Aug 2005-present	Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia.
Jan 2002-Aug 2005	Research Assistant, MEASURE/Evaluation project at Carolina Population Center. Projects: The discrete data in principal component analysis, with applications to socio-economic status estimation The re-use of clusters in repeated multistage surveys Permutation testing for program evaluation
May - Aug 2002	Centre for Economic and Financial Research, Moscow. Worked in projects: Social Protection Implementation: Profiling of the Unemployed Tax-Benefit Modelling for Russia
May - June 2001	Summer internship at the World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki.
Jan - May 2001	Research Assistant, environmental statistics project for EPA.
Nov 2000 - present	Research Associate and RePEc archive maintainer, Centre for Economic and Financial Research, Moscow.
July 1998 - Aug 2000	Russian-European Center for Economic Policy. Economist. Industrial Policy Team (team leaders: Irena Grosfeld, Claudia Senik-Leygonie) and Social Policy Team (team leader: Anthony F. Shorrocks). See Publications section. RePEc archive maintainer.
Sep 1999 - July 2000	NES, Research Assistant, Social Policy in Russia (GET research project) Leaders: Prof. A. F. Shorrocks, Essex Univ.; Ks.Yudaeva, Ph.D., MIT; I.Denisova, Ph.D., Manchester Univ.
WORK EXPERIENCE: Teaching
Full responsibility
Winter 07	Stat 9100 Advanced Topics: Complex Survey Data Analysis. See syllabus draft
Winter 07, Fall 07, Spring 08	Stat 4710/7710: Statistics for Engineering Students
Winter 06, Spring 08	Stat 9370: Multivariate Analysis, an advanced graduate course, University of Missouri, Columbia. See syllabus.
Fall 05	Stat 4750/7750, Introduction to Probability Theory, based on Ch. 1--4 of Hogg, Craig and McKean, 6 ed. Upper undergraduate/Master's level course, University of Missouri, Columbia
June-July 2004	Introduction to Stata, a part of Data Analysis and Research Seminar, American Economic Association Summer Program and Minority Scholarship Program
May-June 2003	Visiting professor, New Economic School, MA in Economics program. Course: "Data Analysis". Full instructorship responsibility, including curriculum development.
Aug 2003, March 2004	Visiting professor, NES outreach program. Course: Applied microeconometrics and labor economics (Vladivostok, August 2003; Alma Aty, March 2004). One week seminar for the regional instructors on the basics of the microeconometrics with application in labor economics.
Aug - Dec 2002, Jan - May 2003	Instructor, Stat 11 Section 5, "Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis", an introductory undergraduate course. Lecturing, assigning homeworks (graders and IAs provided by the Department), and desiging, giving, and grading the exams.
Jan - May 2002, Aug - Dec 2003	Instructor, Stat 31 Introductory Statistics course for UNC undergraduates. Lecturing, assigning homeworks (graders and IAs provided by the Department), and desiging, giving, and grading the exams.
April-May 2000	Seminars on applied econometrics with Stata 6 at Voronezh State University and Urals State University, Ekaterinburg; organized by the NES outreach project. Full instructorship responsibility. Lecture notes available in Russian.
Sep - Dec 1998	International College at Moscow State University. Lecturer in Probability Theory and Statistics with Computer Applications. Full instructorship responsibility, except the choice of the textbook. Instruction in English.
Teaching assistance
June-July 2004	Teaching Assistant in Econometrics, Foundations Level, American Economic Association Summer Program and Minority Scholarship Program
Sep - Dec 2001	Teaching Assistant, Stat 174 (Applied Linear Regression) and Stat 194 (Design and Robustness)
Aug - Dec 2000	Teaching Assistant, Stat 126 (Intermediate Probability), UNC.
July 2000	EERC-TERN Summer School for Economic Research. TA in Econometrics program. Instructor: S.Anatolyev
Nov 1997 - July 2000	NES, Teaching Assistant in: Living standards (September - October 1999, Prof. A. F. Shorrocks) Econometrics - III (May - June 1999, Prof. S. Anatolyev, Ph.D. student from Wisconsin) Econometrics - II (April 1999, Prof. P. Katyshev, CEMI) Dynamic Econometric Models (Nov - Dec 1997, Prof. G. Urga, LBS)
Sep - Dec 1998	International College of Economics and Finance at Higher School of Economics, Moscow, and London University. TA in Computer Science (MS Office, C programming)
Teaching activities
Sep 2006 - May 2007	New Faculty Teaching Scholars program, University of Missouri system
WORK EXPERIENCE: Service
Referee reports	National Science Foundation Survey Methodology The Economics of Transition International Regional Science Review New Economic School Master Theses
U of Missouri	Seminar series in Statistics, Committee Chair, 2005-06
WORK EXPERIENCE: Translation
Apr - Aug 1999	Translation of Matrix Differential Calculus With Applications in Statistics and Econometrics by Jan R. Magnus, Heinz Neudecker. About seven chapters out of about twenty were translated.
May 1995-Nov 1998	Infoart , translator (English -> Russian) in the magazine ComputerWeekly (till 1998: ComputerWeek-Moscow). Several dozens translations published ranging 1k-60k in size.
Nov 1994-Mar 1998	Mir PK (a PC World clone), translator (English -> Russian)
Jan 1998-Mar 1998	PC Week/Russian Edition, translator (English -> Russian)

RECENT PRESENTATIONS
Aug 2007	Resampling inference through quasi-Monte Carlo, North American Stata User Group meeting, Boston, MA
Aug 2007	Application of quasi-Monte Carlo methods in survey inference, Joint Statistical Meetings, Lake City, Utah.
Sep 2006	Whither social science statistics? University of Missouri, Department of Statistics Colloquium.
May 2006	A review of Bayesian statistical methods and their use in economic research, CEFIR/NES Lunchtime Seminars
May 2006	A Modification of the EM Algorithm with Applications to Spatio-Temporal Models, Seminar on Multivariate Statistical Analysis and Stochastic Modelling, Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences
March 2006	A Modification of the EM Algorithm with Applications to Spatio-Temporal Models, ENAR 2006 Spring Meetings
Nov 2005	A Modification of the EM Algorithm for Spatio-Temporal Models with Environmental Applications, University of Waterloo
August 2005	On Reuse of Clusters from Master Sample in Repeated Studies. Contributed talk at Joint Statistical Meetings, Minneapolis.
July 2005	A Modification of the EM Algorithm for Spatio-Temporal Models with Environmental Applications , Ph.D. defense at Department of Statistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
February 2005	A modificaiton of the EM algorithm with spatio-temporal and environmental applications. Job talk presented at University of Missouri, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, University of Washington.
February 2005	The effect of complex sampling on statistical procedures in social science research Presentation at University of Washington, Department of Sociology.
December 2004, January 2005	The Use of Principal Component Analysis with Discrete Data for Socio-Economic Status Evaluation, a presentation at the 2004 Triangle Econometrics Conference and job talks at New Economic School and University of Aarhus
December 2004	gllamm: software for multilevel modeling. Presentation at SAMSI Latent Variable Models in Social Sciences program, Multilevel and Structural Equation Modeling Working Group.
November 2004	Linear Regression and Beyond: extensions and modifications of the linear regession model. Presentation at StatLunch seminar.
August 2004	The Use of Discrete Data in Principal Component Analysis With Applications to Socio-Economic Indices, poster presentation at Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto.
March 2004	The Use of Discrete Data in PCA with Applications to Socioeconomic Status, StatLunch student group.
Dec 2002	Regional poverty in Russia: Is it geography or economics that matters? Presentation at NES 10-th Anniversary Conference
Oct 2002	Model Selection from Statistical Point of View. Student presentation at CS 290 "Data mining" class.
May 2002	Resampling inference for complex survey data. The student talk at Stat 225 course.
Dec 2001	Empirical Likelihood: A Review of the Concept and Literature. The student talk at Stat 220 course.
Dec 2001	Robust x Design = Robust Designs? The student talk at Stat 190 course.

 

AWARDS
2007	Balancing the bootstrap with the quasi-Monte Carlo methods, Summer Research Fellowship Award, University of Missouri system (internal; awarded with contingencies on the parallel NSF award)
2006	Applications of quasi-Monte Carlo methods in survey estimation, submitted to NSF DMS program.
2006	Sixth Winemiller Symposium: New Methodological Developments in Statistics in Social Sciences, Partial support: $20000, NSF award #DMS-0605679, NSF Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
2006	Collaborative research: Research: Structural Misspecification in Latent Variable Models: Symptoms, Consequences, and Diagnostic Tests, with Ken Bollen, NSF Methodology, Measurement and Statistics program, award No. 0617193, role: PI, status: awarded
2005	Informatively missing data in longitudinal studies, Winemiller Award for Collaboration in Statisics and Psychology, status: awarded. Joint work with Phillip K Wood (University of Missouri, Columbia Psychology) and Tiffany Whittaker (University of Missouri, Columbia Education, Department of Educational, School and Counseling Psychology)
2004	Best Applied Papers Award, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
2002	Best Student Paper Travel Award for the 2002 Joint Statistical Meetings in Atlanta, sponsored by the Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR).
2001	Best Student Paper Travel Award for the 2001 Joint Statistical Meetings in Atlanta, sponsored by the Government Statistics Section, Social Statistics Section, and Section on Survey Research Methods.
2000-2001	Merit Assistantship by the Graduate School, UNC
1999-2000	Economics Education and Research Consortium grant for research on the topic: "Poverty and Expenditure Differentiation Of Russian Population" with Prof. S.A.Aivazian. (See above for a link to the published results.) in PDF format.
1995	2nd Prize in Russian Mathematical Olympiad among technical students
1994	2nd Prize in Russian Mathematical Olympiad among technical students
1994	2nd Prize in Moscow Mathematical Olympiad among technical students
1993-1995	Mayor's Scholarship, MIEE
1991-1994	Academic Council Scholarship, MIEE
MEMBERSHIPS
2000 -	American Statistical Association
2001 -	Institute of Mathematical Statistics
2005 -	Statistical Society of Canda
SKILLS
Computer	Windows, MS Office (advanced user); OS/2, Linux (beginner) Statistical Packages: Stata (expert), some of SPSS, Statistica, E-Views, SAS, R, S-Plus, AMOS, LISREL, M-Plus FTN networks (advanced user) Internet, Web design and HTML Typing: 200 cpm (Russian, English)
Language	Russian -- native; English -- fluent (TOEFL score 630 as of Aug 1997; 270 on CAT as of Nov 1999); French -- basic
GRE Scores	Analytical 800 (99%), Verbal 490 (57%), Quantitative 800 (99%); subject test: Mathematics, 990 (99%) as of Nov 1999.
PERSONAL
	Married to Oksana Loginova Son Timothy born April 1999. Daughter Zlata born June 2004
ACTIVITIES
	Amateur (bards; modern city folklore; KSP) song Play guitar, recorder Latin and standard dancing Sports: voleyball, tennis, Outdoors: white-water, alpine and cross-country skiing, rock-climbing

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