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Rostyslav Sipakov, Ph.D.

Founder & research program principal

Tampa, Florida, United States

Environmental scientist and construction professional connecting air-quality measurement, building systems, and reproducible research.

Selected experience, qualifications, and publications.

Research & practice

Rostyslav Sipakov, Ph.D., leads CoastalQuant’s research into indoor formaldehyde measurement and its evaluation methodology. The work examines interfering compounds, measurement uncertainty, and the conditions under which a result can be trusted.

His doctoral research examined the secondary formation and dispersion of formaldehyde in urban air. His professional background includes construction and building-services work dating to 2005, alongside research in environmental monitoring and data analysis.

Current programs

Selected experience

  1. 2026–present

    CoastalQuant Technologies Inc.

    Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer

    Tampa, Florida, United States

    Leads the formaldehyde measurement research program and validation planning, connecting instrument development with a reproducible evaluation methodology.

  2. 2022–present

    CoastalQuant, Inc.

    President & Chief Executive Officer; Primary Qualifying Agent

    Tampa, Florida, United States

    Construction-sector work under Florida Certified General Contractor license CGC1532785, providing a practical connection to buildings and the research program’s prospective field-evaluation pathway.

  3. 2005–2014

    Group Systems LLC

    Founder & General Director

    Moscow, Russian Federation

    Commercial and office construction and fit-out, including ventilation, heating, air-conditioning, plumbing, and electrical systems.

Education

2021

Ph.D. — Ecological Safety Engineering

Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, Ukraine

Doctoral research on environmental risk from urban road-traffic air pollution, including secondary formaldehyde formation.

2009

Master’s equivalent — Civil Engineering

Belarusian National Technical University, Belarus

Diploma in Industrial and Civil Construction, with the qualification of Civil Engineer.

2009

MBA equivalent — Management

Institute of Open Business Education and Design, Moscow, Russia

Diploma in Business Management, with the qualification of Manager.

WES credential record

See the badge’s evidence record for the credentials and equivalencies covered.

Credentials & learning

Licensure & professional certification

Licensed 2022

Certified General Contractor · CGC1532785

Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation

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Awarded 2025

Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP)

Project Management Institute

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Awarded 2024

PMI Construction Professional (PMI-CP)

Project Management Institute

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Awarded 2023

Envision Sustainability Professional (ENV SP)

Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure

ENV SP directory

Continuing professional education

Professional learning programs. These certificates are not academic degrees.

  • Professional Certificate in Computer Science for Artificial Intelligence

    HarvardX · 2025

    View certificate

  • Professional Certificate in Large Language Models

    Databricks / edX · 2024

    View certificate

Memberships & service

  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Senior Member, since 2025

  • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    Member (M.ASCE), since 2021; Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI)

  • Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES)

    Full Member (MIEnvSc), since 2024

Peer-review service

Peer reviewer for journals published by PLOS, Elsevier, ASCE, Frontiers, and MDPI, with reviewing activity beginning in 2022.

Areas include environmental science, construction, sustainability, public health, air quality, ventilation, and sensing.

Selected publications

Peer-reviewed articles & conference papers

  1. Journal article · 2025 · First author

    Quadratic-Baseline Partitioning of Indoor PM2.5 Using a Low-Cost Optical Sensor During a Facade Retrofit Case Study

    IEEE Sensors Letters

  2. Journal article · 2024 · First author

    Leveraging Quadratic Polynomials in Python for Advanced Data Analysis

    F1000Research

  3. Conference paper · 2024 · First author

    Assessing and Mitigating Occupational Risks for Outdoor Workers in Post-Catastrophe Urban Road Infrastructure Rebuilding

    ASCE · Forensic Engineering 2024

  4. Conference paper · 2023 · First author

    Data-Driven Algorithmic Framework for Sustainable and Culturally Harmonious Coastal Home Construction and Monitoring

    EAGE · Monitoring 2023

  5. Journal article · 2018 · First author

    Assessment and forecast for the creation of photochemical smog over transport overpasses in Kyiv

    Environmental Safety and Natural Resources

Dissertation & preprint

  1. Dissertation · 2021 · Author

    Improving management of environmental risk from urbanized areas highways’ air pollution (on an example of Kyiv city)

    Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture · Zenodo archive

    Ukrainian-language full text.

  2. Preprint · 2026 · Sole author

    Statevector-Referenced Geometry Survival of a Four-Qubit ZZ Quantum Kernel on IBM Quantum Hardware: A Fixed-Subset Diagnostic Across Three Execution Configurations

    arXiv:2607.20377

    Not peer-reviewed. A limited hardware diagnostic; it does not establish quantum advantage or validate the formaldehyde measurement system.

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