Hripsime Matevosyan

Entry year, Skoltech – 2014
Advisor: Alessandro Golkar
Thesis: Framework for Program Planning in Multi-stakeholder Systems of Systems

Hripsime Matevosyan is a PhD candidate in the field of Space Systems Engineering and Systems Architecting within the Strategic Innovation Research Group (SIRG) lead by professor Alessandro Golkar. She had her bachelor degree in Informatics and Applied Mathematics from Yerevan State University (YSU) and her MSc degree in Control and Applied Mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). Her current research focuses on the development and implementation of Virtual Space Missions and their economic model. Besides, she is involved in the development of the Concurrent Design Facility.

She started her professional career as a software developer during the third year of her studies in YSU in a mobile development company. After being awarded a scholarship from Institute for System Programming of Russian Academy of Sciences (ISP RAS) she started working in the YSU laboratory for Systems Programming. Her work and research in the laboratory were focused on compiler technologies, particularly on the Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM). She was then invited to finish her bachelor thesis in ISP RAS. The thesis became an integral part of the obfuscating compiler developed in ISP RAS. During the research period in ISP RAS she was invited to pursue her MS degree in MIPT. During her studies in MIPT she continued working in ISP RAS compiler team.

As Ray Bradbury once said in one of his interviews “Things that we love should be things that we do. And things that we do should be things that we love.” This saying became her credo. One of her all time passions was Space and working on Space related subjects was always one of her dreams and aims. That was the driving factor to start her PhD studies under the supervision of Professor Alessandro Golkar.