Misc.

2024 : Chair of Music Industry, UCLA (Herb Alpert School of Music).

Ongoing (since 2021) : Creation and ownership of PSV Music Bootcamps, aiding embattled Russian musicians with international professional and creative exits from a repressive status quo:

2024–2025 / Songwriting, Sync, and Business

2023 / Blockchain and web3 for independent musicians and artists

2022 / Web3 series

2022 / Architecture of a hit song

2022 / Designing an electronic press kit / Mental health for musicians

2021 / Managing and marketing in the US music business

2021 / Songwriting

2024:  Combination of ThirdWeb blockchain SDKs and AI as possible solution to two enduring problems in Russian music industry: copyright abuse and ineffective collection agencies.

2023-2024: Blockchain music and news publication in repressed societies. Uses a couple of Moralis clones (Spotify and Medium) in order to examine music and news publications as NFTs. This protects IP, complicates piracy, anonymizes authorship (if needed), and makes fake news cryptographically impossible.

2023–2024: Advanced Professional Certificate in Commercial Songwriting, Berklee School of Music

  • Harmony / Melody

  • Writing Hit Songs

  • Commercial Songwriting

  • Ableton/Cubase

2022-23: UCLA Founding Faculty, Music Industry Interdepartmental Degree Program

2023 : Specialization in Music Supervision (UCLA Extension / Distinction):

  • Copyright Law in the Entertainment Industry

  • Music Licensing Law

  • Contemporary Music Publishing

  • Music Supervision in Film and Television

2023: Introduction to Planet9 history of Russian punk (see above)

2023: Translated screenplay for animated feature “Hodja” (dir. Timur Bekmambetov)

2022: Mellon Foundation Award, “Data, Justice and Society” (Blockchains and Freedom of Speech)

2022: Google Cloud and Moralis “Defining DeFi” Hackathon Prizewinner (“Social and Entertainment Blockchains”)

2022: UCLA Social Medicine PhD planning committee

2022: Jury, Russian World Music Awards

2022: Graduate program design for UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine (“Medicine and Media” MSc/MA)

2022: Development of online ten-week asynchronous course: “Social Media and Storytelling” (UCLA Humanities)

2021- Present Curator of Music, Wende Museum of the Cold War (Los Angeles)

2021: Softlanding IT Program (Skolkovo Innovation Center, Moscow)

2021: Head of Special Interest Group, Media and Entertainment @ Hyperledger (Permissioned Blockchains)

2021- PresentGuild of Music Supervisors (Los Angeles)

2020 Certificate in Data Science (with distinction, UCLA Extension)

2020-2024: Faculty Lead, EPIC (Excellence in Classrooms and Innovative Pedagogy [Mellon Foundation])

  • Seminars in Teaching Excellence (co-taught Health Humanities / completed Inclusive Classrooms)

  • Teaching Innovation Grants

  • Course Development Seminars … and more

2019-20: Blockchain Developer Credentials (B9 Academy)

2018: Full-Stack Web Developer Credentials (UCLA Extension)

2018: University of California Distinguished Teaching Award

2018: Eby Award for the Art of Teaching, UCLA

2017-19: Chair, Dept. of Comparative Literature