Sergei Stepanovich Starchenko (Сергей Степанович Старченко) is a mathematical logician who was born and grew up in the Soviet Union and now works in the USA.
His doctoral dissertation Number of models of Horn theories was written under the supervision of Evgenii Andreevich Palyutin.
[citation needed] 2013 he received the Karp Prize with Ya’acov Peterzil for collaborative work with two other mathematicians.
With Peterzil he applied the theory of o-minimal structures to problems in algebra and real and complex analysis.
[citation needed] In 2010 Starchenko was, along with Peterzil, Invited Speaker with the talk Tame complex analysis and o-minimality at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad.