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[edit] Biography
Born on September 29, 1983 in Moscow, Russia as Ildar Sagdejev. Moved to Vilnius, Lithuania in the early 1990's, and then to Annandale, VA, USA in 1993. About a year later, moved to Fairfax, VA, and in 1996 to Durham, NC. Graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in December, 2004, with majors in Mathematics and Physics. Currently working as a Robotic Software Engineer at LEAP Technologies in Carrboro, NC.
[edit] Nickname
In Lithuania, my mother brought an abandoned female kitten into our house (she kept meowing ouside for hours, until my mother couldn't stand it any longer). We named her Dunya, a common female name in rural Russia. A variation of that name is Dusya, or Dunka or Duska for short. When we moved to America, we had to leave our cat with my aunt, and I invented Dusik (a male transformation of Duska) to use as my internet nickname.
On several occasions, people have pointed out that Dusik is also a Korean name (although probably pronounced differently). I have certainly seen evidence of Dusiks on the Internet from other countries. Also, Samohyl Jan pointed out that dusík is the Czech word for nitrogen.
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