{"id":9,"date":"2019-01-29T19:35:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T19:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Shishkov\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2019-02-05T18:33:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T18:33:24","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Shishkov\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was born in Moscow, Russia and grew up in Brooklyn, New York.  I did my Bachelor&#8217;s (B. E.) and Master&#8217;s (M. E.) in mechanical engineering at the Cooper Union, where I learned to love fluid mechanics and data visualization. I decided to pursue a PhD at Georgia Tech to find more beautiful phenomena to visualize and understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outside of the lab, I like to do aerial silks. I also love my pets: I have a dog, an axolotl and two tarantulas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><div id=\"metaslider-id-72\" style=\"max-width: 700px;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-108-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-72 ml-slider has-dots-nav ms-theme-default\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"New Slideshow\" data-height=\"400\" data-width=\"700\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_72\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_72\">\n            <ul class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-80 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2019-02-01 21:40:46\" data-filename=\"2019-01-26-13.30.12-1-700x400.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Shishkov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-01-26-13.30.12-1-700x400.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"700\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-72 slide-80 msDefaultImage\" title=\"2019-01-26 13.30.12-1\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-81 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2019-02-01 21:40:46\" data-filename=\"2019-02-01-16.39.47-700x400.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Shishkov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-01-16.39.47-700x400.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"700\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-72 slide-81 msDefaultImage\" title=\"2019-02-01 16.39.47\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-82 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2019-02-01 21:40:46\" data-filename=\"2019-02-01-16.40.12-700x400.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Shishkov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-01-16.40.12-700x400.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"700\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-72 slide-82 msDefaultImage\" title=\"2019-02-01 16.40.12\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-83 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2019-02-01 21:40:46\" data-filename=\"2019-02-01-16.39.57-700x400.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Shishkov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-02-01-16.39.57-700x400.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"700\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-72 slide-83 msDefaultImage\" title=\"2019-02-01 16.39.57\" \/><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m waiting for the results of my dog&#8217;s DNA test to find out what kind of mix she is. Have any guesses? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/Shishkov\/contact-me\/\">Contact me!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After graduation, I hope to work as a research scientist at a national lab or in industry. I want to continue studying different types of collective motion (everything from proteins to birds), understanding how animals move, and applying that knowledge to create new technology such as robot swarms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was born in Moscow, Russia and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I did my Bachelor&#8217;s (B. E.) and Master&#8217;s (M. E.) in mechanical engineering at the Cooper Union, where I learned to love fluid mechanics and data visualization. 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