Experience
2020 — Now
2020 — Now
New York, United States
Bringing Generative AI, LLMs, and Agentic AI to Google Workspace (Gemini for Workspace).
Leading quality and modeling for Slide Generation and agentic AI features in Google Slides. Recent launch covered by TechCrunch, The Verge, WIRED, CNET, Fast Company, and others.
2018 — 2020
2018 — 2020
New York, New York
Working in Facebook AI Applied Research on computer vision problems.
2013 — 2017
Bellevue, WA
Development of local search for maps.bing.com and other Microsoft services.
Principal Accountabilities
◆ Local search quality improvement for multiple countries.
◆ Training and refactoring machine learning rankers and classifiers.
◆ Engineering new features and integration with maps and Cortana services.
◆ Engineering new data pipelines and updating existing pipelines to support new data sources.
Notable Projects
◆ Development of “Search along a route” feature on maps.bing.com from a Hackathon prototype to production release.
◆ Unification of local search relevance stack for different countries using generic components instead of custom components per each country.
2013 — 2013
2013 — 2013
Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
Improvement of image search quality on images.yandex.com using machine learning approaches.
Principal Accountabilities
◆ Development and testing of new image ranking models.
◆ Development of machine learning models using image data for other teams in the company.
Notable Projects
◆ Creation of an image URL ranking algorithm for a web crawler.
◆ Development of an intent classifier prototype for desktop wallpaper feature.
2008 — 2013
2008 — 2013
Development and support of an optical recognition system for Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Arabic languages.
Principal Accountabilities
◆ Improvement of the machine learning model both in speed and recognition quality.
◆ Adaptation of the machine learning model for new requirements (eg. mobile devices or scanners).
◆ Development of internal tuning and labelling software. Communication with a team of onsite judges.
◆ Preparation of new releases (bugs removal, testing and profiling for hot spots).
Notable Projects
◆ Adaptation of machine learning model for mobile devices.
◆ Creation of a unique approach for fast Arabic text recognition.
Education
Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)
Master's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science
2005 — 2010