Education:

• Doktor Ingeniør (PhD equivalent in Norway) in Information and Intelligence Science (4 years nominal study period) from Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, August 2006. Title of thesis: Distributed Agent-Based Web Service Selection, Composition and Analysis through Partial Deduction (in PDF). Supervisor: Mihhail Matskin;
• Master of Science in Computer and Systems Engineering (2 years nominal study period - 80 cp (120 ECTS)) from Tallinn Technical University, Tallinn, Estonia, June 2002. Title of thesis: Linear Logic Programming for AI Planning (in PDF). Supervisor: Tarmo Uustalu;
• Bachelor of Science in Computer and Systems Engineering (4 years nominal study period - 160 cp (240 ECTS)) from Tallinn Technical University, Tallinn, Estonia, June 2000. Title of thesis: Learning Interactive State Machines in the Robot Moving Context (in Estonian). Supervisor: Tarmo Uustalu;
• graduated Haapsalu Wiedemanni Gymnasium (secondary school) where the main subject was mathematics, June 1996;
• course on mathematics at School of Exact Sciences of University of Tartu, 1993 - 1996.

Scholarships:

• The New Visby Programme scholarship for research at IMIT, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 1 February - 31 April 2002. Research topic: "Decentralized Services for Peer-to-Peer Computing. PPC Directory and Naming Services: An Architecture and a Prototype",
• Socrates/Erasmus scholarship at Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, 1 October - 31 December 2001.

Employment:

• researcher, Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, January 2009 - present,
• post-doctoral fellow, School of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, February 2007 - present,
• CEO, SOA Trader, Ltd., Tallinn, Estonia, January 2007 - present,
• research fellow, Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, September 2002 - December 2006,
• engineer, Software Department, Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn Technical University, Tallinn, Estonia, November 1997 - August 2002.

Teaching Experience:

• teaching assistant, Logic, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Fall 2002, Fall 2003, Fall 2004,
• lecturer, Logic and Planning, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Fall 2003, Fall 2004,
• teaching assistant, Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Spring 2003, Spring 2004,
• assistant, Java 2, Estonian Business School, January 11-13, April 5-7 2001,
• assistant, Theoretical Computer Science, Tallinn Technical Univesity, Fall 2000.
  

Awards:

• best paper runner-up award for J. Rao, P. Küngas, M. Matskin. Logic-based Web Services Composition: from Service Description to Process Model. In Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, ICWS'2004, San Diego, California, USA, July 6-9, 2004, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 446-453, 2004.
• best paper award for Riina Maigre, Peep Küngas, Mihhail Matskin, and Enn Tyugu. Handling Large Web Services Models in a Federated Governmental Information System, In Proceedings of The Third International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, ICIW 2008, Athens, Greece, June 8-13, 2008.

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