• 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

Md Amit Hasan Arovi and Ruslan Nikolaev, 2026, "Fixing Non-blocking Data Structures for Better Compatibility with Memory Reclamation Schemes", The 31st ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2026), pp. 26-39

Yanlin Du and Ruslan Nikolaev, 2025, "Joyride: Rethinking Linux's network stack design for better performance, security, and reliability", The 3rd Workshop on Kernel Isolation, Safety and Verification (KISV 2025), pp. 25-31

Yubo Wang, Ruslan Nikolaev and Binoy Ravindran, 2025, "reInstruct: Toward OS-aware CPU microcode reprogramming", The 3rd Workshop on Kernel Isolation, Safety and Verification (KISV 2025), pp. 10-16

Ruslan Nikolaev, 2025, "Parsec: Fast, Scalable, and Secure Design with Wait-Free Parallelism", The 16th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2025), pp. 202-208

Md Amit Hasan Arovi and Ruslan Nikolaev, 2025, "Brief Announcement: SCOT: Fix non-blocking data structures, not memory reclamation", The 37th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA 2025), pp. 603-607

Md Amit Hasan Arovi and Ruslan Nikolaev, 2025, "RRR-SMR: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Better Methods for Practical Lock-Free Data Structures", The 46th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2025), 9, pp. 2156-2179

Ruslan Nikolaev and Binoy Ravindran, 2024, "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), 8

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

Mincheol Sung, Ruslan Nikolaev and Binoy Ravindran, , "Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Storage and File System Services with Non-Blocking Synchronization for Private Clouds", The 16th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC 2025), pp. 307-319

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 3rd Workshop on Kernel Isolation, Safety and Verification (KISV 2025), co-located with SOSP 2025, August 2025 - September 2025

• Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Reviewer, Journal Paper Reviewer, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) 2025, June 2025 - December 2025

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Reviewer, Program Commitee, The 39th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2025), May 2025 - August 2025

• Organizing Conferences and Service on Conference Committees, Reviewer, Program Commitee, The 18th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR 2025), May 2025 - August 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 - September 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