Konstantin V. Belov. Home address Caswell Ave. A-2 Los Angeles, CA 90066, U.S.A. Telephone: Citizenship: USA, Russia

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1 Konstantin V. Belov Department of Physics and Astronomy / Portola Plaza Los Angeles, California 90095, U.S.A. Telephone: Fax: bkv@physics.ucla.edu Home address Caswell Ave. A-2 Los Angeles, CA 90066, U.S.A. Telephone: Citizenship: USA, Russia Objective Seeking an opportunity to advance my career in teaching and research in physics, astronomy, astrophysics and particle physics. Education Ph.D. in Physics, Particle Astrophysics. University of Utah, Advisor: Prof. Pierre Sokolsky. Dissertation title: p-air inelastic cross-section at energies above ev. M.S. in Physics, Radio Astronomy, St.-Petersburg State University, Six year University program that includes B.S. in physics. Advisor: Prof. Georgy Gelfreikh. Thesis title: Converting the RATAN-600 radio telescope into a high resolution radio heliograph. High school diploma from St.-Petersburg Physics and Math Gymnasium. Research Positions Assistant Researcher / Lecturer, October 2010 present University of California, Los Angeles Research Associate, October 2007 October 2010 University of California, Los Angeles Visiting Scholar, May 2007 October 2007 Rutgers University Research Associate, May 2006 April 2007 University of Utah Graduate Research Assistant, September 1997 May 2006 University of Utah

2 Research Assistant, May 1992 August 1996 Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences Research Experience Research Associate / Assistant Researcher / Lecturer, October 2007 present Coordinating the upcoming Geosynchrotron Emission from Air Showers experiment at SLAC. Leading the work on the theory and simulations of the radio pulse emission from ultra high energy cosmic rays at UCLA. Working on hardware design and assembly of the ANITA-II and ANITA-III ultra-high energy neutrino balloon experiments. ANITA-II data analysis, working with the UCLA students on the neutrino and cosmic ray data processing and MC simulations. Went to Antarctica for the ANITA-II launch in season, was responsible for the ground calibration system. System administrator for the 248-node Saxon computer cluster at UCLA. Visiting Scholar, April 2007 October 2007 Worked on the design and construction of the TOWER detector prototype for the TA experiment. Developed the data selection criteria for the HiRes UHECRs anisotropy study. Graduate Research Assistant / Research Associate, September 1997 May 2007 Proposed and developed a novel deconvolution technique to measure the p air inelastic cross-section at ultra high energies. Supervised graduate and undergraduate students working on the cosmic ray spectrum and composition analysis. Developed innovative methods and software for the Hires data analysis and MC simulations. Created a library of the MC simulated air showers that is still in use by the TA collaboration. Developed an algorithm and software to check some geometrical properties of the HiRes detector using a UV laser. Was the primary operator and on call expert of the HiRes stereo detector. Supervised new members of the collaboration during the detector operation. Coordinated the start of the HiRes detector operation at the beginning of each cycle. Was organizing and supervising the HiRes detector hardware repair campaigns. Responsible for the PMT testing and selection for the HiRes II. Collected the data for the FLASH experiment at SLAC. Contributed in the hardware design and the data processing for the FLASH experiment at SLAC. Research Assistant, May 1992 August 1996 Studied solar active regions in microwaves.

3 Calculated the optimal location for additional antennas to convert the RATAN-600 radio telescope into a 2D fast high resolution radio heliograph. Developed the data recovery algorithms for the radio astronomy observations. Teaching Experience Lecturer at UCLA. Taught three large classes for the first year undergraduate students (Physics 1 series) and an elementary particle laboratory for the senior physics majors (Physics 180F). Teaching assistant at the Department of Physics of the University of Utah. Taught different undergraduate courses and graduate laboratories. Instructor assistant teaching physics labs to freshmen students at St.-Petersburg State Technical University. Developed computerized circuit analysis system as a part of the electronics lab class at St.-Petersburg State Technical University. Taught advanced English to three parallel classes of students ages 9 to 15. Created a unique curriculum and class lessons. Computer Experience System administrator for the 248-node computer cluster under Linux at UCLA with complicated networking and distributed data storage. CONDOR scheduler administration. Extensive use of Beowulf clusters for the parallel data processing and MC simulations. Was responsible for the computer network for the HiRes project. Developed several graphical software tools to constantly monitor the network as a crucial part of the HiRes detector operations. C++, Java, FORTRAN, Bash, Perl, ROOT, PAW, Origin, LabVIEW, Maple, Emacs, LaTeX, PGSQL, Sybase. CORSIKA, GEANT4., REAS. Very familiar with computer hardware. Outreach and Professional Organizations Science Lab Teaching Club Founder and Chair, Science Lab Teaching Club, January 2012 Founded a society of UCLA physics undergraduate students to teach STEM subjects at local schools Coordinator and Science Advisor for Science Lab Teaching Club Web site: American Physical Society Referee, Physical Review D Referee, Reviews of Modern Physics

4 National Science Foundation NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) panelist American Physical Society APS Four Corners 2005 meeting in Boulder, CO Organized graduate student travel grants to APS FC 2005 Organized the Hires student sessions Physics Department Committee on Policy September 2003 May 2006 Worked on graduate student participation in faculty search process. Students Joe Lam - current David Urdaneta (now a California NanoScience Institute intern, selected DAAD fellow, Germany) Amos Ng (accepted to Carnegie Mellon University Graduate School) Alexander Lin (accepted to Arizona State University Graduate School) Honors Fellowship for excellence in study during the whole period of study at St.-Petersburg State Technical University. The department award for the undergraduate research. M.S. Thesis award. Russia National Mathematics Olympiad Finalist. Russia National Physics Olympiad Finalist. St.-Petersburg Chemistry Olympiad 3 rd place. Personal Interests and Hobbies Hi-fi analog sound recording, aviation, tennis. Biographical Citizenship: USA, Russia. Languages: English, Russian (native) with survival skills in few other languages.

5 Konstantin V. Belov Recent reviewed publications 1. K. Belov, et al. Energies and flux of the UHECRs observed by ANITA, in preparation. 2. K. Belov, Using radio technique to measure UHECR chemical composition, in preparation. 3. K. Belov, Radio emission from air showers. Comparison of theoretical approaches, AIP Conf. Proc. 1535, pp (2013) arxiv: K. Belov, Towards Determining the energy of the UHECRs observed by the ANITA detector, AIP Conf. Proc. 1535, pp (2013) arxiv: P. W. Gorham, et al. including K. Belov, Implications of ultra-high energy neutrino flux constraints for Lorentz-invariance violating cosmogenic neutrinos, accepted to Phys. Rev. D, arxiv: (2012). 6. M. Detrixhe, et al. including K. Belov, Ultra-Relativistic Magnetic Monopole Search with the ANITA-II Balloon-borne Radio Interferometer, accepted to Phys. Rev. D, arxiv: v2 (2011). 7. A. G. Vieregg et al. including K.Belov (The ANITA Collaboration), The First Limits on the Ultra-high Energy Neutrino Fluence from Gamma-Ray Bursts, ApJ 736, 50 (2011) 8. S.Hoover et al. including K.Belov (The ANITA Collaboration), Observation of Ultrahigh-energy Cosmic Rays with the ANITA Balloon-borne Radio Interferometer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, (2010). 9. P.W. Gorham et al. including K. Belov (The ANITA Collaboration), Observational Constraints on the Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Neutrino Flux from the Second Flight of the ANITA Experiment, Phys. Rev. D 82, (2010) 10. R. Abbasi et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), Indications of Proton- Dominated Cosmic-Ray Composition above 1.6 EeV, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, (2010) 11. R. Abbasi, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), Analysis of largescale anisotropy of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in HiRes data, ApJ 713, L64 (2010). 12. R. Abbasi, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), Measurement of the Flux of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays by the Stereo Technique, Astropart.Phys. 32:53-60 (2009). 13. R. Abbasi, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), First Observation of the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Suppression, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, (2008). 14. R. Abbasi, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), Search for Correlations between HiRes Stereo Events and Active Galactic Nuclei, Astropart.Phys. 30: (2008). 15. R. Abbasi, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), An Upper Limit on the Electron-Neutrino Flux from the HiRes Detector, ApJ 684: (2008).

6 16. R. Abbasi, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), Air fluorescence measurements in the spectral range nm using a 28.5 GeV electron beam, Astropart.Phys. 29:77-86 (2008). 17. Abbasi, R., Abu-Zayyad, T., Belov, K., Belz, J., Bergman, D. R., Cao, Z. et al. The FLASH thick-target experiment, Nucl. Inst. and Meth., A597(1), (2008). 18. Abbasi, R., Abu-Zayyad, T., Belov, K., Belz, J., Bergman, D. R., Cao, Z. et al. Techniques of the FLASH thin target experiment, Nucl. Inst. and Meth., A597(1), (2008). 19. R. Abbasi, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), A Search for Point- Like Sources of Cosmic Rays with Energies above ev in the HiRes-I Monocular Data-Set, Astropart. Phys., Volume 27, Issue 6 (July 2007), R. Abbasi, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), Studies of systematic uncertainties in the estimation of the monocular aperture of the HiRes experiment, Astropart. Phys., Volume 27, Issue 5 (June 2007), R. Abbasi, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), An alternative method to finding patterns in HiRes stereo data, Astropart. Phys., Volume 28, Issue 4, (2007), K. Belov, p-air inelastic cross-section measurement at ev, Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 151 (2006) R. Abbasi, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), Search for Cross- Correlations of Ultra High-Energy Cosmic Rays with BL Lacertae Objects, Astrophys. J., 636: (2006). 24. K. Belov, Y. Fedorova and P. Sokolsky, Composition and cross-section measurements with the HiRes, Czech. J. Phys., Volume 56, A313-A326 (2006). 25. R. Abbasi, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), A measurement of time-averaged aerosol optical depth using air-showers observed in stereo by HiRes, Astropart. Phys., Volume 25, Issue 2, (2006), pages R. Abbasi, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), Techniques for measuring atmospheric aerosols at the high resolution flys eye experiment, Astropart. Phys., Volume 25(1), (2006). 27. R. Abbasi, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), Observation of the Ankle and Evidence for a High-Energy Break in the Cosmic Ray Spectrum, Phys. Lett. B, Volume 16, Issues 3-4, (July 2005), Pages R. Abbasi, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), A Study of the Composition of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays Using the High Resolution Fly s Eye, ApJ 622 (2005) R. Abbasi, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), Measurement of the Spectrum of UHE Cosmic Rays by the FADC Detector of the HiRes Experiment, Astropart. Phys., Volume 23(2), pp (2005). 30. R. Abbasi, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), Search for Point Sources of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays above ev Using a Maximum Likelihood Ratio Test, ApJ, 623: (2005). 31. R. Abbasi, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), Measurement of the Flux of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays from Monocular Observations by the High Resolution Fly s Eye Experiment, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, (2004).

7 32. R. Abbasi, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), Arrival Directions of UHECR Within the HiRes-1 Monocular Dataset: A Search for Overlaps With the Reported AGASA Clusters, submitted to ApJ Lett. (Oct. 2004). 33. R. Abbasi, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), A search for arrival direction clustering in the HiRes-I monocular data above ev, Astropart. Phys., 22: (2004). 34. R. Abbasi, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), Search for Global Dipole Enhancements in the HiRes-I Monocular Data above ev, Astropart. Phys., 21:111 (2004). 35. R. Abbasi, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), Study of Small- Scale Anisotropy of Ultra High-Energy Cosmic Rays Observed in Stereo by the High Resolution Fly s Eye Detector, AstroPhys. J., 610, L73 (2004). 36. T. Abu-Zayyad, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), Observation of Significant Structure in the Cosmic Ray Spectrum Near ev using the HiRes Experiment, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. (Aug. 2002). 37. T. Abu-Zayyad, et al. including K. Belov, Geometry and Optics Calibration for Air Fluorescence Detectors Using Star Light, Astropart. Phys. 18, pp (2002). 38. T. Abu-Zayyad, K. Belov, D. J. Bird, J. Boyer, Z. Cao, M. Catanese, G. F. Chen, R. W. Clay, C. E. Covault, H. Y. Dai et al., A Measurement of the Longitudinal Development of the Cosmic Ray Air Shower between to ev, Astropart. Phys. 16, pp (2002). 39. T. Abu-Zayyad, K. Belov, et al., Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Energy Spectrum and Composition from to ev Using a Hybrid Technique, ApJ 557, pp (2001). 40. T. Abu-Zayyad, et al. including K. Belov, Energy Estimation of UHE Cosmic Rays using the Atmospheric Fluorescence Technique, Astropart. Phys. 16, pp (2002). 41. T. Abu-Zayyad, M. Al-Seady, K. Belov, et al., The prototype high-resolution Fly s Eye cosmic ray detector, Nucl. Inst. and Meth., A450(2), (2000). 42. T. Abu-Zayyad, M. Al-Seady, K. Belov, et al., A Fiber-optic Based Calibration System for the High Resolution Fly s Eye Cosmic Ray Observatory, Nucl. Inst. and Meth., A460, 278 (2000). 43. T. Abu-Zayyad, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), Evidence for Changing of Cosmic Ray Composition Between and ev from Multicomponent Measurements Phys. Rev. Lett., 84, 4276(2000). 44. L.R. Wiencke, et al. including K. Belov, Steerable laser system for UV atmospheric monitoring at the High-Resolution Fly s Eye, SPIE Proceedings Vol. 3818, pp (1999). 45. L.R. Wiencke, T. Abu-Zayyad, M. Al-Seady, K. Belov, et al., Radio-controlled xenon flashers for atmospheric monitoring at the HiRes cosmic ray observatory, Nucl. Inst. and Meth., A428(1 2), (1999). 46. C.R. Wilkinson, T. Abu-Zayyad, M. Al-Seady, K. Belov, et al., Geometrical reconstruction with the High Resolution Fly s Eye prototype cosmic ray detector, Astropart. Phys. 12(3), pp (1999).

8 Selected recent talks Radio detection of UHECRs, Cosmic Frontier, APS DPF s long-term planning workshop for the high-energy physics, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (2013). Invited talk. ANITA - Looking into the universe of the ultra-high energy cosmic rays and neutrinos, PACIFIC 2012, a symposium on Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology Including Fundamental InteraCtions, Moorea, French Polynesia (2012). Invited talk. Geosynchrotron Radio Emission from Extensive Air Showers Experiment, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford (2012). Towards Determining the energy of the UHECRs observed by the ANITA detector, The 5 th international workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Detection Activities (ARENA 2012), Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany (2012). Radio emission from Air Showers. Comparison of theoretical approaches, The 5 th international workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Detection Activities (ARENA 2012), Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany (2012). Geosynchrotron emission from air showers at SLAC, Radio Simulations for Neutrino and Cosmic Ray Detectors, Center for Cosmology and Astoparticle Physics, OSU (2012). Search for Radio Pulses Caused by UHE Neutrino Interactions The ANITA Experiment, New Trends in High-Energy Physics, Yalta, Ukraine (2008). Invited talk. Measuring p-air inelastic cross-section using cosmic ray data, 12 th International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering, Hamburg (2007). Invited talk. Proton-air Inelastic Cross-Section Measurement at Ultra-High Energies, The 30 th International Cosmic Ray Conference, (ICRC), Merida, Mexico (2007). Composition and cross-section measurements with the HiRes, From Colliders to Cosmic Rays Int. Conference, Prague (Sep. 2005). Invited talk. p-air inelastic cross-section at ultra-high energies, The 29 th International Cosmic Ray Conference, (ICRC), Pune, India (Aug. 2005). Primary Cosmic Ray Mass Composition at Ultra High Energies Measured by HiRes, TeV Particle Astrophysics Conference, FNAL (July. 2005). Proton-air inelastic cross-section measurement at ultra-high energies by HiRes, TeV Particle Astrophysics Conference, FNAL (July. 2005) p-air inelastic cross-section measurement at ev, XIII International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions at the NESTOR Institute, Pylos, Greece (2004). Invited talk. p-air inelastic cross-section measurement at ev, DNP of the APS meeting, Chicago, (2004). A measurement of the p-air inelastic cross-section near ev, APS meeting, Denver, (2004). A Measurement Technique of p-air inelastic cross-section above ev, The 28 th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Tsukuba, Japan, (2003).

9 Selected other publications 1. D.Z. Besson, et al. including K.Belov (The ANITA Collaboration), Antarctic Radio Frequency Albedo and Implications for Cosmic Ray Reconstruction, arxiv: (2013). 2. R. Abbasi, et al. including K. Belov (The HiRes Collaboration), A likelihood method for measuring the ultrahigh energy cosmic ray composition, arxiv:astro-ph/ v2 (2006). 3. K, Belov, Monte Carlo simulation of the stereo trigger aperture of a multi-site air fluorescence detector array, in Proc. to 27 th ICRC, IUPAP, Germany (2001). 4. K, Belov and H. Y. Dai LPM effect and cosmic ray air shower development, in Proc. to 27 th ICRC, IUPAP, Germany (2001). 5. T. Abu-Zayyad, et al. including K. Belov, First Stereo Results from the High Resolution Fly s Eye Air Fluorescence Detector, International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC), Salt Lake City, Utah, 5 369, (1999).