He joined KTH in 1993. In 1998, he worked as a visiting scientist at Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge , MA , USA. In 2004, he was an invited visiting researcher at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts (UMASS), Amherst , MA , USA Dr Vlassov has experience in national and international research projects and a long teaching experience in the areas of distributed and parallel computing.