OpenTalks.AI /
6-7 March 2024
Tbilisi

UPMC professor of Computer Science in the Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Ruslan works in the field of statistical machine learning. His research interests include Deep Learning, Probabilistic Graphical Models, and Large-scale Optimization.

Research scientist at Google DeeMind working on automatically discovering algorithms for applied and scientific problems.

Landau AI Fellow at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Ex-Scientific Director of Artificial Intelligence Research Institute in Moscow, and ex-Head of Deep Learning Laboratory at the MIPT. Under his leadership was developed the award-winning open-source conversational AI framework, DeepPavlov.

PhD, Professor of Computer Science at Constructor University, Professor of Computer Science at National Research University Higher School of Economics

Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Rector of Innopolis University, Professor at MIPT, Higher School of Economics, Chief Researcher at ISP RAS, Skoltech, IPPI RAS. Since 2011, Alexander has been working on numerical optimization methods. Author of more than 200 articles, 7 books.

Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. An Associate Professor in Skoltech CDISE and a head of Advanced Data Analytics in Science and Engineering group.

Head of the Speech & Semantic team at Huawei Noah's Ark Lab Moscow.

Artsiom is Senior Research Scientist at Meta AI, specializing in generative models for visual content. He's also the mind behind the largest AI-focused Telegram channel in Russian, @ai_newz. Artsiom holds a Ph.D. in Computer Vision from Heidelberg University in Germany.

Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Snap.
Tatiana has dedicated a decade to researching and developing open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools for the world's languages, including BLOOM, mGPT, and various evaluation frameworks.

Founder and Chief Scientist at Adam & Eva Inc., PhD

Head of Programs for the Development of AI Technologies and Tools at Gazprom Neft. 15 years of experience in applied AI in such companies as Yandex, Jetbrains, Gazprom Neft.

Managing Partner in a venture studio focused on creating top-notch AI(ML) based brand new products.

Leonard N. Stern Professor of Business at NYU. Produced over 170 research publications on personalization, recommender systems, machine learning and AI. He served as the General and as the Program Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining and the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, as well as on the editorial boards of several journals, including as the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems.

Scientific director

Marketer and expert in the field of implementing AI in business processes.
- CO-Founder - AI CJM - service for implementing AI agents business processes
- CO-Founder - Maxi Digital - advertising agency for online schools.

Master's degree in Discrete Math from SPbSU, with over 7 years of experience in GPU-based algorithm optimizations. Among notable past AI projects - developing a high-performance computer vision inference engine featured in NVIDIA's GTC Keynotes. Presently, Grigorii is contributing to the AI team at Perplexity, one of the leading AI startups.

Graduate of the University of Berlin. Humboldt, Managing Director of Infotropic Media, President of the European Legaltech Association (ELTA).

Information retrieval & natural language processing

Creator of solutions related to speech analytics at Tochka

Associate and portfolio manager at a VC fund, Forbes author, MIPT and HSE alumni

Dmitry is Head of two research laboratories that mainly work for Chinese companies. Scientific achievements - 3 A* and two Q1 for the last 2 years.

Associate Professor

Lead Engineer at Huawei
Candidate of Technical Sciences
Associate Professor, Department of Information Systems and Technologies, NRU HSE

Junior Artificial Intelligence Software Development Engineer

Deep Learning researcher with main expertise in 2D/3D computer vision and natural language processing, particularly in healthcare applications.

Head of the Artificial Intelligence Department of Private Enterprise "Cifrum" (Rosatom State Corporation)

PhD, Head of the Intelligent Transport Laboratory at the MIPT Center for Cognitive Modeling, Senior Researcher at the AIRI Institute of Artificial Intelligence

Over a decade of leading data-driven product management across various developmental stages. Extensive experience in developing products for retail, venture, and financial sectors. Proficient in assembling teams from scratch and steering large divisions comprising several hundred individuals. Additionally, provided consultancy to startups at different developmental stages in the CIS and Central European regions. Delivered lectures at ITMO, MIPT, and HSE.

PhD, Head of Department, Professor - Faculty of Computer Science / Department of Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence
Head of Laboratory:Faculty of Computer Science / International Laboratory of Intelligent Systems and Structural Analysis
Academic director of the educational program: Data Science

Dmitry works in the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems and Structural Analysis at the National Research University Higher School of Economics and is engaged in research in the field of automatic text processing.

Lead data scientist

Head of AI

Senior Business Analyst, Advanced Analytics Department

Mathematical modelling and advanced analytics group lead.. His data science team is focused on the ML solutions in metallurgy.

Crowdsourcing lecturer at School of Data Analysis, HSE, MIPT. Co-Founder & ex-CTO TrainingData.Pro.

Researcher. Network traffic analysis, anomaly detection, attack modeling

Junior researcher of UDV group
ITMO Master's degree student

Researcher at Yandex.Research with solid experience in Applied Mathematics and AI. Published 40+ articles, including 6 in Q1 journals and the NeurIPS conference. Holder of a Ph.D. Lectured courses at ITMO University, Ural Federal University, and the Open Data Science learning platform.

Head of R&D Center. PhD, Associate Professor, Head of the Cybersecurity Laboratory of IRIT-RTF UrFU. 20+ years of experience in Telecom, IT, information security, teaching at universities.

CTO and co-founder of Celsus, author of the telegram channel "Varim ML"

Associate Professor: Faculty of Computer Science / School of Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory Head: Faculty of Computer Science / Laboratory for Models and Methods of Computational Pragmatics

CPO, CrossOverMarkets, London, UK
Head of B2B products and platform at SberDevises, Founder of CleverDATA, CTO
of NeuroHealth.Care and author of CDO Club Teleram channel.

Co-founder of OpenDataScience, Organizer of ODS London

Senior AI researcher in Cifrum. His research interests lie at the intersection of neural networks, artificial intelligence hardware and control systems.

PhD, Head of FusionBrain Laboratory at AIRI
Long-term experience in leading research teams in computer vision, multimodal and multiagent architectures design (OmniFusion, RUDOLPH, the family of text-to-image(video) models Kandinsky, GHOST, etc.). Author of 70+ publications in Scopus/WoS, including Q1 journals and Core A/A* conferences.

PhD in computer science, Associate Professor at HSE University & ITMO and a Senior Research Fellow at Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (AIRI) and ISP RAS. Head of the AI Center at National University of Science and Technology MISIS.

Head of the AI in Medicine Laboratory. Conducts research in the field of image analysis and human-artificial intelligence interaction.

CEO LLC "PREDICT SPACE", researcher at MSTU. N. E. Bauman, master of Saint Petersburg State University of Telecommunications named after M.A. Bonch-Bruevich. , Microsoft Certified Trainer, Certified Cisco Systems Instructor, Huawei Certified Academy Instructor

Senior Research Fellow at HSE University

Visiting Research Professor (Higher School of Economics University, Russia / Acronis Asia Research & Development Pte Ltd, Singapore)

Author of the data & text mining system PolyAnalyst. Over the past 20 years, he has been researching spiking neural networks and creating application systems based on them. Currently works in the Advanced Technologies Department of Kaspersky Lab and heads the Laboratory of Neuromorphic Computing at Chuvash State University.

Solution Architect, PhD.
As part of a group of researchers and developers, Oleg is working on neuromorphic AI development for robotics, operational technologies control, and cybersecurity.

Team lead at Sber Robotics Laboratory

PhD, Researcher at AIRI, Assistant Professor at Center for Cognitive Modeling MIPT

Senior Researcher at Kurchatov institute
Study of magnetic fields of the brain during execution of the cognitive tasks.

Ph.D., Head of the Laboratory of Wave Processes and Control Systems at MIPT

PhD, Leading researcher in the laboratory of Wave Processes and Control Systems (MIPT). Scientific and technical leader of the robotic football team "Starkit". Experience in robotics since 2013. Experience in humanoid robotics since 2018.

Researcher at the Federal Research Center A.V. Gaponov-Grekhov Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod

PhD in Computer Science. Research Data Scientist in AGI NLP Team in SberDevices, specializing in LLMs and their evaluation. Lecturer in Higher School of Economics.

ML engineer

Engagement Manager at Yakov and Partners. PhD in Energy with a specialization in digitalization and machine learning for energy systems from EPFL, Switzerland. Engineer by training, she has 7+ years of experience in both academia and industry, including tenure at the consulting firm McKinsey and Company. In the course of her academic career, Marina received a number of distinguished scholarships and awards, authored 10+ scientific publications, and developed energy-saving algorithms for robots at CERN.

Lead engineer with 15+ years of international experience in companies such as Motorola, Samsung, Huawei.

PhD, Researcher at MIPT

Head of CV in Severstal Digital, leading several teams of developers through past 5 years in Severstal

Deep Learning Assistant engineer at Huawei, develops algorithms for neural network training acceleration, previously worked at Intel. A student of the NRU HSE Master's degree in Data Mining, a graduate of the NRU HSE Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. Area of interest: training and fine-tuning acceleration, distributed training, PEFT, unsupervised learning.

Head of DA/DS. Alexander implements the data-driven approach in practice.

Pentester at Deteact, interested in AI security

Co-founder & CPO at Bioptic.io (Biotech & AI)
Co-founder & CPO at AIorNot.com (Acquired)
Founder & ex-CEO at EORA.AI (ML studio, >50 AI/ML projects for Sber, Yandex, PepsiCo, s7, etc.)

General Partner of rpv VC fund
PhD in theoretical physics. 15+ years in academia.
Co-founder of DeepTech VC fund - rpv

PhD, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Informatics and Control Systems, vice-rector at Georgian Technical University, a member of Academic Board and head of Technology Transfer.

Senior Quantitative Researcher. PhD in Mathematics.
Passionate for mathematics and its applications, in particular - machine learning and data science in general. Has a dream of applying ML and DS methods to new and different areas, such as game development.

PhD, Lead ML Research Engineer at Noeon Research, Assoc. Prof. at ITMO University, Senior Researcher at ISP RAS, Head of GO AI Lab.

Senior sales and partnership relation manager at ONLYOFFICE. A former German and English teacher, a passionate IT enthusiast, now located in Yerevan, Armenia. Eager to connect with AI experts at the conference.

Director of Software R&D, Tinkoff

Director of Digital Transformation Project Management, VTB Bank, previously worked on fintech projects at Otkritie Bank. He has experience in VR, blockchain projects and AI projects.

Alexy Khrabrov is the Open-Source Science Community Director at IBM Research. He previously was a Technical Ecosystem Development Lead at IBM Quantum, Chief Scientist at Nitro, an Australian public company, a software engineer at Amazon, and a co-founder and engineer at several Bay Area startups.

Associate Professor at the Data Analysis and Machine Learning Department at the Finance University (since 2020), Head of the Youth Computer Vision Lab (since 2023), a researcher at ITMO (since 2022), a researcher at Ulyanovsk State Technical University (since 2023). Head of the Master's degree educational program "Computer Vision" at the Financial University.

Ilya holds CFA and PhD degrees, oversees investments at the Brayne.vc family office, serves on the boards of directors for several AI startups, lectures on startup investments at HSE, and is the author of the Telegram channel "Inside VC".

Coordinator of BRICS STI WG on Biomed from Skoltech, Deputy CREI Director for Development, Skoltech

Active investor in complex b2b software, advanced manufacturing and climate tech, startups mentor, corporate innovation practitioner.

Deep learning researcher with 5 years of experience in the computer vision field. For the last 3 years, he has been working at the enot.ai startup on neural network compression and acceleration tasks. The ENOT team, including Andrey, focuses on practical applications of neural networks on edge devices in agriculture, autonomous driving, and robotics.

Head of Data Labeling Team, Sber AI 2nd year master's student, ITMO University

Master's student at NNSU "Artificial Intelligence" and YSDA, worked for more than a year as an ML engineer at "Lukoil - Engineering Skills and Competencies" with time series, for 2 years she has been participating in the work of the Research Laboratory "Artificial Intelligence and Processing of Large Data Arrays"

Artificial Intelligence researcher, programmer, teacher

Product Lead, MIPT graduate with a specialization in the intersection of medicine and technology

PhD Computational Linguistics, Tampere University, Finland
Team Lead NLP OCRV

PhD, Data Scientist at Sber (Customer Expirience)