Vadim Gerasimov

{{Short description|Russian software engineer}}

Vadim Viktorovich Gerasimov ({{langx|ru|Вадим Викторович Герасимов}}) is an engineer at Google. From 1994 to 2003, Gerasimov worked and studied at the MIT Media Lab. Gerasimov earned a BS/MS in applied mathematics from Moscow State University in 1992 and a Ph.D. from MIT in 2003.

At age 16 he was one of the original co-developers of the famous video game Tetris: he ported Alexey Pajitnov's original game to the IBM PC architecture and the two later added features to the game.Sheff, David. Game Over: How Nintendo Conquered The World, Vintage, 1994. {{ISBN|0-679-73622-0}}[http://vadim.oversigma.com/Tetris.htm "Vadim Gerasimov - Tetris Story"] (Accessed August 15, 2006)