• Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Vladimir State University, 2007
• Master of Science, Computer Science, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2009
• Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science and Applications, Virginia Tech, 2013

Conference Proceedings

A K M Fazla Mehrab, Ruslan Nikolaev and Binoy Ravindran, 2022, "Kite: Lightweight Critical Service Domains", Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '22), pp. 18

Ruslan Nikolaev and Binoy Ravindran, 2022, "POSTER: wCQ: A Fast Wait-Free Queue with Bounded Memory Usage", Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2022), pp. 2

Ruslan Nikolaev, Hassan Nadeem, Cathlyn Stone and Binoy Ravindran, 2022, "Adelie: Continuous Address Space Layout Re-Randomization for Linux Drivers", Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '22), pp. 16

Ruslan Nikolaev and Binoy Ravindran, 2021, "Brief Announcement: Crystalline: Fast and Memory Efficient Wait-Free Reclamation", Proceedings of the 35th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2021), pp. 4

Ruslan Nikolaev and Binoy Ravindran, , "wCQ: A Fast Wait-Free Queue with Bounded Memory Usage", Proceedings of the 34th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA '22), pp. 13

Ruslan Nikolaev and Binoy Ravindran, , "A Family of Fast and Memory Efficient Lock- and Wait-Free Reclamation", The 2024 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2024)

Service to Penn State:

Service to External Organizations:

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Reviewer, Program Commitee, The 2025 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '25), January 2025 - April 2025

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Reviewer, Program Commitee, The 43rd ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2024), February 2024 - April 2024

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Reviewer, Program Committee, The 1st Workshop on Kernel Isolation, Safety and Verification (KISV 2023), co-located with SOSP 2023, August 2023 - October 2023

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Reviewer, Program Commitee, The 2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '23), January 2023 - April 2023

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Organizer, Publicity Chair, The 14th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage '22), January 2022 - June 2022

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Reviewer, Program Commitee, The 2022 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '22), February 2022 - April 2022

• Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Reviewer, Journal Paper Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (2021 and 2022), August 2021 - February 2022