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.
h-index - 147

Director of Artificial Intelligence Development, Yandex

PhD, Senior Researcher at the Lebedev Physical Institute,
Vice President of the Russian Association of Neuroinformatics

MD, PhD, FRAS
Institute for Advanced Brain Studies, MSU

PhD, Associate Professor, Head scientific group "Modern data analysis in science and engineering", Skoltech

PhD, Associate Professor at the Department of Big Data and Information Retrieval, Faculty of Computer Science, National Research University Higher School of Economics. Lecturer at the Yandex School of Data Analysis.

Researcher at Laboratory of Mathematical Logic of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Mathematical Institute, RAS and Laboratory of Internet Research, HSE, professor of the Academic University, RAS. 

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.

Senior Quantitative Researcher with 6 years in High-Frequency Trading. Currently responsible for driving ML across the entire trading strategy pipeline in traditional markets.

Founder of Bioptoc and EORA group of companies, co-founder of DisplAir. Graduate of Moscow State University. Lomonosov. Three times laureate of our suburbs award. Multiple winner of Russian and international hackathons.

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.

Team Lead, YandexGPT pretraining

Founder True Click Technologies|
Founder myCouncil

philosopher, engineer, systems architect at Naevius Fze

Co-founder myCouncil

Founder of AI Ecosystem, ex-CDO Sber, ex-CTO AI Venture Studio

Principal Engineer in Microsoft Azure

Master's graduate of ITMO University

Computer Vision Team Leader in Severstal Digital. 10+ year of experience in Computer Vision and Machine Learning

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Director of the Department for Development and Implementation of Artificial Intelligence Systems at BIA Technologies. 10 years of experience in developing logistics planning and automation systems using mathematical optimisation, machine learning and computer vision method

Petr Vytovtov is a lead of an ML and weather forecasting quality team in Yandex Weather. Has 9+ years of experience in Deep Learning and 6+ years in a Weather Forecasting area.

PhD, Senior researcher, lead of Embodied agents team at AIRI, associate professor at Center for Cognitive Modeling MIPT

PhD, head of Kaspersky Neuromorphic Platform, that is based on spiking neural networks and neuromorphic chip Altay, head of development of predictive analytic system "Kaspersky Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection"

PhD, Senior Solution Architect in the Technology Research Department of Kaspersky Lab. Oleg is working on neuromorphic AI development for robotics, operational technologies control, and cybersecurity.

Researcher in the field of spiking neural networks at Kaspersky Lab, head of neuromorphic computation laboratory at Chuvash State University