Public activities

2024

“Towards a Production-Ready Customer Feedback LLM: Leveraging LLM Evals for Advanced Feedback Analysis”, a technical talk during “LLM evals in practice” seminar hosted by Arize AI. A case study on real production data from one of my GenAI projects at Wayfair. Slides, recording.

LLMs summer school at the University of Oxford. Led the practical part of the 3 day workshop for computational social scientists aimed to boost social-economic research with usage of language models. Materials.
“Mastering the art of chatting with AI” at the Science Slam Berlin. A 10 min talk for non-technical audience in the format of “scientific stand-up”. Recording.
“How to build a high-quality real-time recommender system” at the Street Smart AI meetup in Berlin. My talk about past experience with recommender systems, covers system design of advanced RecSys pipelines and pitfalls I met on my way. Slides, recording.
Gave an interview for the Neural Networks episode at one of the most well known sci pop youtube channels in Russia. The episode has almost 200k views. Recording.

“Machine Learning and personalisation in the Search Engine of Yandex Auto.ru”. Insights from my experience while working at Yandex during DataFest conference hosted by ODS community. The talk was included in the best videos award. Recording.

Publication “NLP analysis of Russian School Principals’ Beliefs about Digital Competences of Educational Process’ Participants.” A collaboration with social scientists where I led the data science part of the project while I was a PHD student at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. Paper, we also presented the work in the NLP section of the DataFest 2021 conference. Recording.

“AutoML for user segmentation: how to match millions of users with hundreds of segments every day” at the Data Science Conference 5.0 in Belgrade, Serbia. My first onsite talk for the international audience. Probably this was the moment I realised I enjoy public speaking. Slides.