• 2015: PhD in Mathematics, Krasovskii Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics
  Thesis: "On some classes of vertex-transitive graphs"
  Advisors: Alexander Gavrilyuk and Vladislav Kabanov (my mathematical genealogy)


• 2011: Specialist in Mathematics, Chelyabinsk State University
  Thesis: "Perfect 2-colorings of Johnson graphs J(v,3)"
  Advisor: Alexander Gavrilyuk

Working experience

• October 2021 - present: associate professor at Hebei Normal University


• October 2016 - March 2022: docent at Chelyabinsk State University


• November 2017 - October 2020: postdoctoral researcher at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
  Host Professor: Yaokun Wu


• July 2015 - January 2021: researcher at Krasovskii Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics


• December 2012 - June 2015: junior researcher at Krasovskii Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics


• September 2012 - October 2016: lecturer at Chelyabinsk State University

Awards

• 2025, Yanzhao Friendship Award from the People's Government of Hebei Province of the year 2024 (highest honorary award for foreign experts who have made significant contributions to the province's development and international cooperation, recognizing individuals in fields like science, education, technology, and culture).


• 2025, Award from Hebei Normal University "Outstanding Teacher of Undergraduate Teaching Quality" for the year 2024.

Membership in organisations and societies

• Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications since November 2025.

Grants

• 2020 - 2021, Joint project of Russian Foundation for Basic Research and National Natural Science Foundation of China, "Extremal problems in spectral graph theory", principal investigator, Chelyabinsk State University; the principal investigator of the Chinese team is Huiqiu Lin (East China University of Science and Technology).


• 2019, National Natural Science Foundation of China, "Combinatorial and algebraic studies of graphs, partitions, designs and their links", principal investigator, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.


• 2016 - 2017, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, "Vertex-transitive Deza graphs", principal investigator, Krasovskii Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics.


• 2013 - 2014, Grant of President of Russian Federation "Methods of local analysis in distance-regular graphs", participant, Krasovskii Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics.


• 2012 - 2013, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, "Characterisations of metric association schemes, their codes, and sets in finite projective geometries", participant, Krasovskii Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics.

Visiting positions

• Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, September 2025, 4 days.
  Host: Dr. Aida Abiad


• Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, September 2025, 4 days.
  Host: Dr. Bart De Bruyn


• Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, September 2025, 6 days.
  Host: Dr. Jan De Beule


• Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, January-February 2025, 14 days.
  Host: Dr. Gerold Jäger


• China Three Gorges University, Yichang, China, November-December 2023, 6 days.
  Host: Dr. Huye Chen


• China Three Gorges University, Yichang, China, October 2023, 6 days.
  Host: Dr. Elena Konstantinova


• Jiangxi Normal Univeristy, Nanchang, China, October 2023, 6 days.
  Host: Dr. Honghai Li


• Novosibirsk State University (Mathematical Center in Akademgorodok), Novosibirsk, Russia, July 2021, 7 days.
  Host: Dr. Elena Konstantinova


• Queen Mary University of London, London, UK, August 2019, 5 days.
  Host: Dr. Leonard Soicher


• Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, November 2018, 6 days.
  Host: Dr. Chao Yang


• Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea, June 2018, 7 days.
  Host: Dr. Mitsugu Hirasaka.


• University of Primorska Koper, Slovenia, November-December 2016, 10 days.
  Host: Dr. Klavdija Kutnar