Yury Kashnitsky
Machine Learning Scientist
NLP practitioner

Yury Kashnitsky
Senior Machine Learning Scientist, NLP practitioner, Ph.D. in applied math
Born in Russia, made a world around living 4 years in Israel and 1.5 years in Canada. Then back to Russia. Currently residing in the Netherlands.
Work Experience
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Senior Machine Learning Scientist
04.2020-curr., ElsevierWorking on various NLP tasks including classification, deduplication, and language quality assessment
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Data Scientist
08.2018-04.2020, KPNText analytics group. Extracting valuable insights from customer contacts - chats, calls and emails. Exploring state-of-the-art approaches to transfer learning for NLP
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Machine Learning expert
2018, Raison.aiSentiment analysis of news on cryptocurrencies. Fine-tuning neural language models, investigating state-of-the-art approaches to sentiment classification
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Data Scientist
2017-2018, Mail.Ru GroupImproving content recommendations for MyWidget (integrated into production), predictive analytics for marketing department and MyTracker BI tool (whole production from scratch)
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Machine Learning tutor
2015-2018, Higher School of EconomicsAdditional professional education - courses in data analysis and machine learning. In these courses, an optimal mixture of theoretical and practical parts is maintained. With lots of practice, homeworks, Kaggle competitions and individual projects students actually acquire practical skills, while thorough in-depth discussion of some algorithms fosters theoretical understanding of applied methods
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Research Assistant
2013-2016, Higher School of EconomicsInternational Scientific-Educational Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Structural Analysis
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Java Developer
2013, RDTEXJava local DB application development with Swing and Derby DB
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Junior BI developer
2011-2013, RDTEXOracle Business Intelligence Answers & Interactive dashboards development
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3D virtual reality application developer
2009-2011, MRTI (Moscow Radio-Technical Institute)RF Audit Chamber's project for strategic auditing and monitoring the results of Russian socio-economical development investigation
Education
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Higher School of Economics (HSE)
2013-2017Ph.D. degree, Applied Mathematics
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Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
2011-2013Master's degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, GPA 4.79
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Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
2007-2011Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics and Physics, GPA 4.53





