I'm an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. I am heading the Virtual Worlds Group, which tries to understand how scalable virtual world systems can be built and populated, and explores the limits of their usability. In the past my research focused on geometric computing and the mathematical theory of computer science. I came to Stanford after doctoral studies at Tel Aviv University and a three-year postdoctoral appointment at UC Berkeley. I grew up in Ukraine and life saw to it that I cannot speak a single language without an accent.

vladlen at stanford dot edu