Dr. Tengiz Bibilashvili. Dr.
Tengiz Bibilashvili was born in Tblisi
in what is now the Republic of Georgia. He immigrated to the US
in 2002, taking a position teaching physics at the
Wildwood
School in Los
Angeles
. He
received his MS (1986) in nuclear physics from the Moscow Institute of
Physics and Technology and his PhD in mathematical physics (1994) from
Tblisi State
University. Before he left the Republic
of Georgia he served as a physics
teacher at the Vecua
Physics-Math School,
the Deputy Director of the Georgian Lyceum of Science and Technology, and on
the scientific staff of the Institute
of Physics
of the Georgian Academy
of Sciences. In 1994, Tengiz was a research fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
at the
University of Cambridge
in the UK. He has extensive IYPT and IPhO
experience. While in Georgia
,
he was a Team Leader of the Georgian team at the IYPT from 1993 through 2002
and Team Leader of the Georgian team at the IPhO from
1998 through 2002. In 1993 his team
earned 1st place in the IYPT and in 2002 his team earned one Bronze,
two Silver, and two Gold medals in the IPhO. He had been the USAYPT Head Coach since
2004. He served as a Team Leader for the USAYPT International Teams in 2004 (Brisbane, Australia), 2005 (Winterthur, Switzerland: where the
US
team that tied for 2nd place in 2005 and made the Finals for the
first time in history), 2006 (Bratislava, Slovakia), and 2007 (Seoul, South Korea).
He was elected President of the USAYPT in April 2008, relinquishing those duties to become the USAYPT Tournament Director in May 2009
Dr. Bibilashvili is a member of
the AAPT, the Georgian Physical Society, and the Institute of Physics (UK).