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Sergey Gorinsky, or Sergey Vladimirovich Gorinsky with the patronymic
included according to the Russian tradition,
was born in the Zelenograd Hospital of Moscow, Russia on June 30, 1971.
Official documents move his birthplace to the nearby Skhodnya, USSR.
Neither the country nor the city exists anymore but Sergey did live in Skhodnya with his parents Vladimir Sergeevich Gorinsky and
Galina Ivanovna Gorinsky (nee Ivanova) for the next 23 years.
In 1988, Sergey Gorinsky graduated from School #2 of his hometown
with a Silver Medal and was accepted to Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology (MIET) in Zelenograd. After completing five and a half years of studies
at MIET with Highest Honors in 1994, he received a degree of Engineer
in computer engineering and left for the U.S.
to attend New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). In 1997, Sergey
migrated south to continue his doctoral studies in computer science (CS)
at the University of Texas at Austin. In Texas, Sergey met Andrea Nemeth,
a Hungarian from Szazhalombatta, when they
tubed the San Marcos River with European students
on September 7, 1997.
Twice New Jersey lured Sergey back for summer internship at Lucent Bell Labs (1998) and AT&T Labs Research (1999). Under guidance of K.K. Ramakrishnan
at AT&T, he started to work on multicast congestion control, a project
that later developed into Sergey's doctoral dissertation supervised
by Harrick Vin.
On his way to the Ph.D. degree,
Sergey earned a Master of Science degree in 1999. He advanced to
the Ph.D. candidacy after defending his dissertation proposal
in 2000 with the late Edsger Dijkstra in memorable attendance.
On February 7 of 2002, Sergey and Andrea married on
the Hawaiian island of Maui. In August 2003, Sergey Gorinsky
became a Doctor of Philosophy and
joined Washington University in St. Louis to work as an Assistant Professor
in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. In the process, Sergey
became
the first Russian either to receive a Ph.D. in CS from
the University of Texas at Austin
or to serve on the CS faculty at Washington University in St. Louis.
On May 25 of 2004, baby daughter Anna Gorinsky arrived at St. Luke's Hospital of Chesterfield, Missouri. On May 14 of 2005, mother Galina died after a short but cruel assault by cancer. Four days later, upon
a request from the National Science Foundation and approval by the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services waived
Sergey's two-year foreign residence requirement, bringing to an unlikely end his eleven years in J-1 visa status and putting him on a tenure track.
Baby son Nils Gorinsky joined the happy family on June 1, 2006.
In September 2007, the U.S. of A. made Sergey its Lawful Permanent Resident.
Sergey's primary research interests are still
in computer networking and distributed
systems.
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