About Me
Hello! I'm Alex. I am passionate about education and machine learning. I am a skilled Lecturer, Researcher, and Data Scientist with over nine years of experience in tech, data analysis, and educational programs for the industry.
Professional Skills
Work Experience
Lecturer and Researcher
JetBrains
- ● Launched Cyprus IOAI Team Training for School Students
- ● Organized Practical Projects from JetBrains for First-Year Students
- ● Launched an AI Club for School Students with open sourced materials
- ● Developed online course "Master AI: Build Game Players Using AlphaZero"
- ● Launched in a team and develop new educational program "Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence"
Head of ML programs
Yandex
- ● Enrolled 100+ talented students in three partner master's programs of Yandex Data School
- ● Organized one-year Machine Learning course with modern approaches for 350+ participants
Associate Professor and Head of the educational program
Saint Petersburg State University
- ● Launched new educational program "Data Science" in 2019, which immediately became popular among the best applicants in Russia, include winners of the International Olympiad in Mathematics (IMO)
- ● Created and taught one-year machine learning course with modern ML approaches. The average student's evaluation of teaching is 4.78 out of 5.0
- ● Developed with the group of students Python package for automatization of ML homeworks: mlpractice
- ● Created from scratch International Scientific and Methodological Center of St. Petersburg State University (Russian Ministry of Education grant) in 2020
Academic Programs Manager
Yandex Data School
- ● Launched a branch of Yandex Data School in Novosibirsk in 2013
- ● Expanded the Yandex Data School branch in cooperation with JetBrains to Computer Science Center in 2017
- ● Organized open Machine Learning training sessions for Kaggle competition participants in 2019
Data Scientist
Yandex
- ● Increased the accuracy of the organizations database twice by 2% and 3% (the main goal of the team)
- ● Automated and optimized data update processes in call centers and in Toloka
- ● Worked in a group of six data scientists. We developed soft in Java, SQL, Python, a little bit of C++
Researcher
Institute of Computational Technologies SB RAS
- ● Developed a new numerical model that takes into account the change in the geometry of the flow path over time
- ● Accelerated calculations by the Fortran language software package available in the laboratory by 16 times (MPI parallization per block), and another 7 times (OpenMP flows inside the block)
- ● Made PhD thesis (in russian)
Education
Machine Learning and Search Algorithms
Yandex Data School
Got a deep understanding of programming languages, search algorithms and data structures, and machine learning.
Masters in Math Modeling
Novosibirsk State University
Investigated models of 3D unsteady flows in hydraulic turbines, numerically solving the Navier-Stokes equations.
Bachelor of Math
Novosibirsk State University
Explored the combinatorial properties of words over finite alphabet in the field of theoretical cybernetics.