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• Developed a novel quantitative appmacb for ranking financial instruments that was reported in tiro referenced <br />publications <br />• Opti'miZed various nsk measurer in multiple applications that was reported in several technical reports and a <br />pubhcation <br />• Redesigned core engineering courre `Engineering Economy "; and received high evahration for having taught 95 <br />students <br />Awards and Recognitions <br />1. Courtesy Appointment of Research Associate at ISE Department, University of Florida for <br />mentoring students, and facilitating research project, May 2010 <br />2. ICSS Risk Management Leadership in Action award, Q3 2007 <br />3. Ring of Reward & Recognition for implementation of iterative line optimization process in Italy, <br />2007 <br />4. Ring of Reward & Recognition for design and execution of Premium Lending Campaigns, 2006 <br />5. Ring of Reward & Recognition for developing new initial fine process in Brazil, 2005 <br />6. Awarded financial support to participate in the Bachelier Society's Third World Congress, <br />Chicago, July 2004. <br />7. Awarded participation in INFORMS Doctoral Colloquium, Atlanta, October 2003. <br />8. ISE Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research, ISE, University of Florida, April 2003. <br />9. Certificate of Achievement for Outstanding Academic Accomplishment, University of Florida, <br />April 2001. <br />Publications <br />1. Bugera, V., Uryasev, S. and G. Zrazhevsky. Classification Using Optimization: Application to <br />Credit Ratings of Bonds. E J. Konthoghiorghes, et al (Eds), Computational Methods in Ffnanciai <br />Engineering. Springer Publishers, Pages 211 -238, 2008. The previously published quantitative approach <br />was generalized and applied to a case study of credit ratings of bond <br />2. Bugera, V., Konno, H. and S. Uryasev. Credit Cards Scoring with Quadratic Utility Function. <br />Journal of Muhi- Criteria Decision Analysi , Volume 11, Issue 4 -5, Pages 197 -211, 2002. A novel <br />quantitative approach was proposed for credit card scoring <br />3. Theiler, U., Bugera, V., Revenko, A., and S. Uryasev. Regulatory Impacts on Credit Portfolio <br />Management. Operations Researrh Proceedings 2002, Selected Papers of Me Symposium on Operations Researcb <br />(OR 2002), Berlin; Conditional Value -at -Risk was optimized within C++ /CPLEX environment to study <br />risk -return behaviors of efficient credit portfolios in presence of regulatory and internal constraints <br />4. Bugera, V. Properties of No -Depot Two Traveling Salesmen Problem. Recent Developments in <br />Cooperative Control and Optimization, S. Butenko, R. Murphey, and P. Pardalos, eds., Kluwer Academic <br />Publishers, Pages 45 -60, 2003. Combinatorial properties of graphs were studied in application to <br />challenging Travelling Salesman Problem. <br />13 <br />