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Khachiyan
Khachiyan (; ) is an Armenian surname. Notable people with this surname include: * Anna Khachiyan (born 1985), American writer and podcaster * Leonid Khachiyan Leonid Genrikhovich Khachiyan (; ; May 3, 1952April 29, 2005) was a Soviet and American mathematician and computer scientist. He was most famous for his ellipsoid algorithm (1979) for linear programming, which was the first such algorithm known ... (1952–2015), Soviet-American mathematician and computer scientist * Melikset Khachiyan (born 1970), Armenian-American chess grandmaster {{surname Surnames of Armenian origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Khachiyan
Anna Leonidovna Khachiyan (; born August 23, 1985) is an American cultural critic, writer, and co-host of the ''Red Scare'' podcast with Dasha Nekrasova, based out of New York City. Early life Khachiyan was born in Moscow, Soviet Union, on August 23, 1985. In 1990, she immigrated to the United States with her parents and was raised in New Jersey. Her father is the Soviet mathematician and Rutgers University professor Leonid Khachiyan and her mother is Olga Pischikova Reynberg. She is of Armenian, Russian and Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Khachiyan graduated from South Brunswick High School in 2003. She received the Patrick J. Quigley memorial scholarship from Rutgers University in 2006, studying economics and art history and graduating with honors. She completed a master's degree in art history at New York University, going on to pursue a PhD in Soviet architecture, before dropping out. Before ''Red Scare'', Khachiyan worked odd jobs as a restaurant hostess, illustrator and act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Khachiyan
Leonid Genrikhovich Khachiyan (; ; May 3, 1952April 29, 2005) was a Soviet and American mathematician and computer scientist. He was most famous for his ellipsoid algorithm (1979) for linear programming, which was the first such algorithm known to have a polynomial running time. Even though this algorithm was shown to be impractical, it has inspired other randomized algorithms for convex programming and is considered a significant theoretical breakthrough. Early life and education Khachiyan was born on May 3, 1952, in Leningrad to Armenian parents Genrikh Borisovich Khachiyan, a mathematician and professor of theoretical mechanics, and Zhanna Saakovna Khachiyan, a civil engineer. His grandparents were Karabakh Armenians. He had two brothers: Boris and Yevgeniy (Eugene). His family moved to Moscow in 1961, when he was nine. He received a master's degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 1978 he earned his Ph.D. in computational mathematics/ theoretical mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melikset Khachiyan
Melikset Khachiyan (; born 6 July 1970 in Baku) is an Armenian-American Grandmaster of chess who now resides in Los Angeles. Biography Khachiyan began playing chess at the age of eight. Two years later he won the Baku Junior Championship. When he was twelve, he became a Soviet candidate master. Among his own early coaches was the 9th World Champion, Tigran Petrosian. Also, such great coaches as ''Aleksander S Nikitin'' and Alexander Shakarov, who are most known for their coaching and analytical work with the 13th World Champion Garry Kasparov. He earned the title of grandmaster in 2006 after immigrating to the USA. He competed at the Chess Olympiad of 1996, at the World Team Chess Championship of 1997, where the Armenia national chess team won bronze, their first World Team Championship medal, and at the European Chess Club Cup of 1997. He was the second coach of Levon Aronian. Currently, he is the coach of Samuel Sevian Samuel Sevian (born December 26, 2000) is an Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |