My experience

Work

Principal Machine Learning Scientist, RELX/Elsevier

04.2020 – Present

  • Improved editors’ operational efficiency providing a near-duplicate manuscript detection service
  • Created a service spotting contributions to Sustainable Development Goals in research content, the service is used by THE in their Social Impact Ranking and in multiple Elsevier products.
  • Leading a team in several NLP-related projects, facilitating the collaboration between engineers and Data Scientists on MLOps.

Data Scientist & applied NLP researcher, KPN

08.2018-04.2020

  • Devised a chat/call/email classification system that raised analysts’ efficiency and reduced average customer complaint processing time by 9.5%.
  • Lead an applied research track on transfer learning in NLP within Amsterdam Data Science.

Data Scientist , Vk.com (ex: Mail.Ru Group)

01.2017-07.2018

  • Improved website recommender systems for myWidget with gradient boosting
  • Introduced predictive analytics functionality for myTracker (LTV, retention, ARPU, etc.) that helped drive new customers

Business analyst, RDTEX

07.2012-10.2013

Administered Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) repositories, created BI analyses.

Application developer, Moscow Radio-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science

10.2009-04.2011

Developed a module for database support in virtual reality applications.

Education

Ph.D., applied mathematics

2013-2016. Federal Research Center for Computer Science and Control, Russian Academy of Science & Higher School of Economics, Department of Computer Science. Thesis: “Pattern structures in classification tasks with complex data”. Gave talks at IJCAI, ECAI, ECML/PKDD and other conferences. Got a Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics.

Master of applied mathematics

2011-2013. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Department of Innovation and High Technology. Thesis: Visual analytics for social network cluster analysis.

Bachelor of physics and applied mathematics

2007-2011. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Department of Aeromechanics and Flight Engineering. Thesis: Plunger mass calculation for well 623, Medvezhie gas and oil field.