OpenTalks.AI /
19-20 February 2026
Belgrade, Serbia

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.

He completed his graduate studies under the scientific supervision of Dmitry Vetrov and Ivan Oseledets, doing research at the intersection of tensor methods and machine learning. Works as a senior research scientist at DeepMind, in the field of offline RL.

Research Scientist Manager, Llama team
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.

Professor of Computer Science (Software, Data and Technology)
School of Computer Science & Engineering.
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Founder & CEO, Recraft
Recraft V3 is the most recent model and is used by default. Released in October 2024, it ranked first for five consecutive months on the Artificial Analysis public benchmark on Hugging Face, maintaining a clear lead over models from Midjourney, OpenAI, and others.

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

Nebius (ex-Imperial College London, Yandex, IMM UB RAS). His research focuses on reinforcement learning and optimal control for agentic and physical systems. Anton has published extensively in top-tier venues, including ICML and NeurIPS.

Leading Research Fellow, AIRI & ISP RAS

Independent researcher, AI engineer at Optic.inc

Head of the Data Analysis department, Kandinsky Lab; PhD student at MIPT; One of the creators of the Kandinsky and Kandinsky Video models

Tatiana hold an M.Sc. in Language Science and Technology from Saarland University. After graduation, joined the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) as a PhD student and researcher. Currently, Tatiana is on leave from her PhD program to pursue an internship at JetBrains, where Tatiana am part of the AI Writing Assistance team. Research interests include efficient data augmentation, dialogue processing, multilingual and low-resource scenarios.

Dmitry Yudin is the Head of the Intelligent Transport Laboratory at the Center for Cognitive Modeling of MIPT and a Principal Research Scientist at AIRI. As part of the Autorobotics team, he won the UpGreat “Level Five” autonomous vehicle competition in 2024 and received the Moscow Region Governor’s Award for Young Scientists in 2023. Since 2009, he has been engaged in research and development in the fields of computer vision and intelligent robotics.