Mikhail Malyutov
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Professor Malyutov worked and taught in the mathematics department of Northeastern University (Boston) since 1995. His research areas spanned applied statistics, information theory, experiment design and a variety of applications. His applied work includes a wide spectrum ranging from DNA fingerprinting, molecular dynamics, and statistical author-attribution to multi-target tracking and financial mathematics. He is best known for his pioneering work on experiment design, information theoretic foundations of group testing, and his earlier works on the solution of the multivariate Poincare boundary value problem and random walks on groups.
Prior to joining Northeastern University, Professor Malyutov taught and conducted research at the Mathematics and Mechanics Dept. of Moscow State University, and Moscow Technical University, and before that he worked as a senior researcher in the Statistical laboratory of Andrei Kolmogorov (who developed the modern mathematical foundations of probability theory).
Professor Malyutov obtained his PhD '67 and ScD '83 degrees from the Moscow State University.
More than 25 students have defended their PhD dissertations under the supervision of Professor Malyutov. He authored over 200 academic papers, and two books, one of them still unfinished. Up until a few days before the tragedy he was still corresponding with his students and actively trying to finish the book.
In addition to his academic work, Mikhail was an accomplished pianist, classically trained singer, and had a keen interest in literary history, including mathematical approaches for authorship attribution for works of William Shakespeare (and other writers). His work appeared in a documentary "Shakespeare against Shakespeare".
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