Program: MSc, PhD: Data Science

Career track: Startup

Place of work: Cinemersive Labs, UK

Position: Senior CV Researcher, Founding Engineer

Type of mentoring: long type: meetings throughout the season

Number of mentees you work with: 2 mentees

Work experience:
⁃ 2022- Senior CV Researcher, Founding Engineer, Cinemersive Labs (startup)
⁃ 2021-2022 CV Engineer, Yandex (industry)
⁃ 2019-2021 CTO, Fish-IT (outsourcing)
⁃ 2018-2020 Research Scientist, Skoltech (academia)

Program: MSc, PhD: Petroleum Engineering

Career track: Industry

Place of work: Burservis (ex. HalliBurton)

Position: Technical expert in geophysics.

Type of mentoring: long type: meetings throughout the season

Number of mentees you work with: 2 mentees

Work experience:
2023 - ex. Halliburton (Burservis). Chief developer of the cloud FWI service. (Full-time). I am developing a cloud service with scalable computation capability for inversion (Full Waveform Inversion / Least Squares Reverse Time Migration) algorithms in geophysics and new technologies in subsurface imaging, requiring large computing power (clusters, supercomputers).
2022 – 2023 ⋄ Geoplat AI. DS developer. (Full-time). Developed an efficient parallelized LS RTM for the 3D seismic migration of large datasets with complex geological structures.

Program: MSc, Photonics & Quantum Materials

Career track: Industry

Place of work: Yandex

Position: ML Team Lead

Type of mentoring: short type: one consultation

Number of mentees you work with: 2 mentees

Work experience: 4 years and more: McKinsey, Head of ML at Megafon

Program: PhD, Petroleum Engineering

Career track: Academy

Place of work: Skoltech

Position: Senior research scientist

Type of mentoring: Long type: meetings throughout the season

Number of mentees you work with: 2 mentees

Work experience: Curtin University

Program: Biomed

Career track: Industry

Place of work: Venture fund Sofinnova Partners

Position: Analyst

Type of mentoring: short type: one consultation

Number of mentees you work with: 3 mentees

Work experience: ГК ЭФКО, отдел корпоративных инноваций Bayer Crop Science CIS Bayer Healthcare (стажировка)

Program: MSc, Life Sciences

Career track: Industry

Place of work: Philip Morris International

Position: Scientific communications projects lead

Type of mentoring: long type: meetings throughout the season

Number of mentees you work with: 3 mentees

Work experience:
1. Atlas Biomed: Content-manager for B2B sales teamContent-manager for B2B sales team
2. Russian Direct Investment Fund: Operations Manager for Regulatory & Clinical trials team, Sputnik V and Sputnik Light projects
3. Philip Morris International: Scientific Communications Project Manager

Program: PhD, Materials Science & Engineering, 2023

Career track: Industry

Place of work: CIC EnergiGUNE

Position: Researcher

Type of mentoring: long type: meetings throughout the season

Number of mentees you work with: 2 mentees

Work experience: 2-3 years: Aramco Innovations LLC

Some facts: During my PhD years at Skoltech, I´ve gain much experience in energy storage and material science areas. After my graduation and 2-years experience in an R&D company, I´ve settled down in Europe to continue battery development and implement related industrial projects.

I am ready for any type of mentoring and to take 1-2 mentees. I will be happy to
- help to improve your CV;
- suggest career development, both in academy and industry;
- give tips for successful interview;
- advice on study and research at Skoltech, conferences, publications, etc.
Looking forward to seeing with you!

Program: MSc, Information science and technologies, 2022

Career track: Industry

Place of work: Avito

Position: DS engineer

Type of mentoring: Short type: one consultation

Number of mentees you work with: 1 mentee

Work experience: VK My.Games (Machine learning engineer), Mail.ru

Some important & interesting facts about you:
Together with my wife won 1 mln rubles in a hackathon.

Program: PhD, Computational & Data Science & Engineering

Career track: Industry

Place of work: https://litebc.tech/

Position: Senior CV Researcher, Team Lead

Type of mentoring: long type: meetings throughout the season

Number of mentees you work with: 3 mentees

Work experience:

1. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kondratevakate/
2. https://airi.net/
3. https://www.bluecircle.ai/

Program: MSc, Data Science

Career track: Industry

Place of work: Samolet

Position: Computer Vision Engineer

Type of mentoring: long type: meetings throughout the season

Number of mentees you work with: 2 mentees

Work experience: MIPT Reaearch lab AuroraAI Samolet NKBTech (own startup) Multiple hackatons expert

Program: MSc, Engineering Systems

Career track: Startup

Place of work: In-Pipe Robot Inc.

Position: Founder & CEO

Type of mentoring: long type: meetings throughout the season

Number of mentees you work with: 3 mentees

Work experience: Lead Engineer at a project that was about the development of a universal electrical device to electrify any mechanical wheelchair.

Program: PhD, Materials Science & Engineering

Career track: Startup / Academy

Place of work: Skoltech

Position: Research scientist

Type of mentoring: long type: meetings throughout the season

Number of mentees you work with: 1 mentee

Work experience:
March-June 2012 - Internship at Sibur
June-August 2013 - Internship at Castrol BP
June-Nov 2014 - Internship at Evonik Industries (Germany)
Since 2020, postdoc researcher at Skoltech
Since 2024, CFO at Polysense (Skoltech-born startup)

Program: MSc, Photonics & Quantum Materials

Career track: Startup

Place of work: HTTPS://pgenesis.ru

Position: Co-founder

Type of mentoring: long type: meetings throughout the season

Number of mentees you work with: 3 mentees

Work experience: Research scientist, NRIME Integrated Photonics

Some facts: Co-founder of #1 commercial hackathon agency Co-founder of #2 Ozon fish seller MIPT Alumni Hard skills: Marketing, management Hobbies: Psychology, Snowboarding, Kite-surfing, Hiking

Program: PhD, Engineering Systems

Career track: Academy

Place of work: Imperial College London

Position: Research Associate in AI and Analytics for Electricity Markets

Type of mentoring: long type: meetings throughout the season

Number of mentees you work with: 2 mentees

Work experience: The University of Manchester

Some important & interesting facts about you: Please see my CV https://andreychurkin.ru/cv/

Program: MSc, Life Sciences

Career track: Academy

Place of work: Skoltech, CAIT

Position: Projects coordinator

Type of mentoring: long type: meetings throughout the season

Number of mentees you work with: 3 mentees

Work experience:
My career experience is connected with AI and computations in the context of people, science, economics, international social structures in CAIT CREI (ex-CDISE). As projects coordinator, I managed various events in my area with CREI Faculties and managed the development of specific AI technical documentation. After my MSc degree, I am always involve into professional learninds related to my current goals. I am happy to coach you as during your entry into DS, ACS, LS careers as during crisis times. You will manage your career path, community and work-life balance easily. Please feel free to connect with me to discuss any questions in your study, career path or any help related to these ones.

Usually, and currently, I work with different education programs, Life Sciences at most but the different sciences may also be a reason to talk!

Program: MSc, Data Science

Career track: Industry

Place of work: Meta

Position: ML Engineer

Type of mentoring: long type: meetings throughout the season

Number of mentees you work with: 2 mentees

Work experience: 2-3 years: Samsung, Skoltech

Program: MSc, Advanced Manufacturing Technologies

Career track: Industry

Place of work: VK

Position: Lead product manager

Type of mentoring: long type: meetings throughout the season

Number of mentees you work with: 2 mentees

Work experience: Accenture Sbermarket

Some facts: I have bachelors in physics in USA I was born in Latvia and moved to Russia to study in skoltech and stayed here for a living I play soccer)) I am a mentor at product university courses I have experience in doing startups) Doing good for people and being part of some biggest changes is the work are what drives me the most. And I still believe that people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do

Program: MSc: Photonics & Quantum Materials, PhD: Physics

Career track: Industry

Your work experience: 5+ years

Current place of work: Skoltech, PICsTech LLC, Fiber Pipe LLC

Previous work places: MIPT, public school, invited researcher at other universities

Current Job position: Research engineer @Skoltech, CTO @PICsTech, CEO @Fiber Pipe
Preferable mentoring type: Long type: meetings throughout the season
Number of mentees you are ready to work with — 2

Interesting facts: I worked as a teacher in a public school as a hobby. I have been a Skoltech hockey team captain.

Type of mentoring: long type: meetings throughout the season

Number of mentees you work with: 2 mentees

Program: MSc, Advanced Manufacturing Technologies

Career track: Industry

Place of work: Reksoft Consulting (ex-Accenture Strategy)

Position: Technology Strategy Consultant

Type of mentoring: long type: meetings throughout the season

Number of mentees you work with: 1 mentee

Work experience: 2-3 years, Technology Strategy Consultant – Reksoft Consulting (ex-Accenture Strategy) (July 2023 – Present) Senior Strategy Analyst – Reksoft Consulting (ex-Accenture Strategy) (August 2022 – June 2023) Strategy Analyst — Accenture, Moscow (May 2021 — July 2022) Researcher — Skoltech, Center for Enterpreneurship and Innovation (September 2019 - July 2021)

Program: MSc, Photonics & Quantum Materials

Career track: Startup

Place of work: Quantum Software Engineer

Position: Quantum Software Engineer

Type of mentoring: short type: one consultation

Number of mentees you work with: 2

Program: MSc Data Science, 2015
PhD, Engineering Systems

Career track: Industry

Place of work: Graebert GmbH, Berlin

Position: C++ developer

Work experience: Kaspersky

Type of mentoring: short type: one consultation

Number of mentees you work with: 2

Program: MSc, Space and Engineering Systems, 2019

Career track: Startup

Place of work: Twinby

Work experience: 2024+ Twinby | AI based dating app that uses psychological matchmaking
2019-2023 T-Bank| TOP-3 bank in Russia with 25 mln of active customers
2016-2019 Asodesk | TOP ranked B2B ecosystem for growing mobile sales
2018 Karl Franzens Universitat Graz | Space Weather research Intern

Position: Head of Product

Type of mentoring: long type: meetings throughout the season

Some important & interesting facts about you:
I’m a data-driven B2B Product Lead with 7+ years of experience, including 4 years leading fintech products at Russia's top online bank with a strong product and "no-bullshit" culture.

Why me? As an entrepreneurial spirit within a company, I excel in taking products from 0 to 1—building from scratch, launching successfully, and leading teams to continuous growth. Key strengths: product vision, market research, financial modelling, P&L management, acquisition strategies, and team leadership.

Outside work, I'm a digital nomad who has traveled to 29 countries, passionate about coffee, gym, and eager to start mentoring my dear fellow university alumni.

Number of mentees you work with: 3

Program: MSc, Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, 2022

Career track: Industry

Place of work: OSRAM

Position: R&D Engineer

Work experience: 4 years and more, Digital_4_Kaizen (startup CTO) Colorobbia East Europe (visiting specialist)

Some important & interesting facts about you: Ready to share some personal real-life experiences to help in developing the right career path

Type of mentoring: long type: meetings throughout the season

Number of mentees you work with: 2

Program: PhD, Computational and Data Science and Engineering, 2022

Career track: Academy

Place of work: Skoltech Project Center for Agro Technologies

Position: Junior Research Engineer

Work experience:
1. Research Technician, Teaching in Laboratory of mechanical and technological tests for structural materials (Materials technology department, Moscow Power Engineering Institute, September, 2014 - June, 2018). 2. Research Intern in Project Center for Agro Technologies (Skoltech, September, 2021 - December, 2021).

Type of mentoring: long type: meetings throughout the season

Number of mentees you work with: 1

Program: MSc, Energy Systems, 2021

Career track: Industry

Place of work: Samsung Research Russia

Position: Computer Vision Research Engineer

Work experience: Tinkoff Bank

Type of mentoring: short type: one consultation

Number of mentees you work with: 2

Program: MSc, Space and Engineering Systems, 2018

Career track: Industry

Place of work: 2ГИС

Position: Product manager

Experience:

• Yandex Taxi — Product manager. Responsible for incentives and bonuses for drivers and one new tariff.
• Fylfire — Python dev / Team lead. Leaded project in automated drone show creation. Web: https://flyfire.io/
• GdeMaterial — Product Manager. Resonsible for acquisition projects in building materials marketplace. Web: https://gdematerial.ru/
• Tyler — Cofounder. It's a startup I founded during my time in Skoltech. Web: tyler.su

Type of mentoring: long type: meetings throughout the season

Number of mentees you work with: 2

Program: MSc Space and Engineering Systems, 2020
PhD Computational and Data Science and Engineering

Career track: Academy

Place of work: OpenCV

Position: CV Engineer

Work experience: O.Vision NeurodataLab

Type of mentoring: long type: meetings throughout the season

Number of mentees you work with: 2

Program: MSc, Energy systems, 2022

Career track: Industry

Place of work: Apricum

Position: Consultant

Experience: Exor

Type of mentoring: long type: meetings throughout the season

Number of mentees you work with: 3

Program: MSc, Life Sciences, 2022

Career track: Academy

Place of work: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Position: PhD student

Experience: I worked at the National Institutes of Health for two years as a visiting scientist. I have excessive experience in applying for PhD.

Some important & interesting facts about you:
I specialize in evolutionary genomics and population genetics. Apart from that I am interested in philosophy, history, and international relations.

Type of mentoring: long type: meetings throughout the season

Number of mentees you work with: 2

Program: MSc, Space & Engineering Systems, 2021

Career track: Academy

Place of work: University of Bundeswehr Munich (and Munich Aerospace)

Position: PhD Scholar

Experience: Neutron Star Systems (current association along with my PhD studies) LoReTT and TopCon Positioning (MSc, research internships/courses) Honeywells Inc (Capstone Design Project, BSc.)

Type of mentoring: short type: one consultation

Number of mentees you work with: 3

Program: MSc, Data Science, 2024

Career track: Academy

Place of work: Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (AIRI)

Position: Research Engineer

Work experience:
* 3.5 years as a Computer Vision Engineer at Huawei RnD. Participated in both research and deployment.
* Research Engineer at AIRI since 01.10.2024. Topics: trustworthy AI, Mechanistic Interpretability

Scientific publications:
* Best paper award in AIST-2023 (Q2) conference.
DeepLOC: Deep Learning-based Bone Pathology Localization and Classification in Wrist X-ray Images
link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12727
* Under review at IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (Q1).
GLiRA: Black-Box Membership Inference Attack via Knowledge Distillation
link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07562

Other achievements:
* Silver medal (top 9%) at "Google Landmark Recognition 2022" competition on Kaggle platform
* Skoltech MSc diploma with distinction; has been awarded 2 times or the Academic Excellence during MSc

Some important & interesting facts about you:
1-year student at Skoltech PhD: Computational and Data Science and Engineering.
Has deep experience in Computer Vision, try to follow the field, although current interests now are Mechanistic Interpretability, LLMs. Interested in other topics involving Deep Learning, Machine Learning.

Other: love to ski, boxing, discussing some interesting topics, slightly addicted to competitions (whenever I have time for them)

Type of mentoring: long type: meeting throughout the season

Number of mentees you work with: 1

Program: MSc; PhD Material Science and Engineering, 2021

Career track: Startup

Place of work: KidsClubs

Position: Founder of a startup

Work experience:
• Graduate of the Faculty of Physics at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)
• Studied in the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT as part of the MIT-Skoltech program
• Created an interactive exhibit for the Moscow Planetarium (you can see and touch it on the second level of the Lunarium museum)
• Developed several devices based on patented technology involving single-wall carbon nanotube fibers
• Co-founder of the international coding school, Geeklama

Some important & interesting facts about you:
Founder of a startup: KidsClubs, a kids' clubs aggregator; mom of two kids (that's also a full-time job, you know :) )

Here is a podcast about my Geeklama experience (in Russian): https://kogdastart.mave.digital/ep-5

Type of mentoring: short type: one consultation

Number of mentees you work with: 2

Program: MSc graduate; active PhD students Life Science, 2021

Career track: Academy

Place of work: BIMAI-lab, Skoltech

Position: Junior Research Engineer

Experience:
Current Role:
1) PhD Student at Skoltech
Topic: Multimodal Data Analysis for Reliable Prediction of Localized Neuronal Activity in Real-Time
2) Junior Research Engineer at BIMAI-lab
Collaboration with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and the University of Sharjah on brain organoids research for hypoxic-ischemic studies

Previous Experience:
Master's Research
Project: Identification of biomarkers for neurological disorders (e.g., schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorder, depression) using multimodal data fusion and neuroimaging analysis with ML models

Key Achievements:
- Co-founder of "CardioSync" start-up focused on advanced Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) therapy
- Recognized with a Certificate of Achievement for Entrepreneurial Spirit
- Developed QS for IW-2023 from scratch and served as a mentor during the event
- Career Center Ambassador (2022-2023)

Some facts:
- Despite being in the Life Sciences program, I've developed skills both in data science and neuroscience, making me a well-rounded mentor for those interested in applying ML/DL to neuroscience and biological problems.
- I taught Korean at Skoltech in 2022, sharing cultural and linguistic knowledge with the Skoltech community.

Type of mentoring: short type: one consultation

Number of mentees you work with: 1

Program: MSc graduate Computational Science and Engineering, 2017

Career track: Startup

Place of work: Incode

Position: Manager of machine learning engineering

Previous Experience: Bosch, Huawei, Twin3D, Damate

Type of mentoring: long type: meetings throught the season

Number of mentees you work with: 1

Program: MSc Life Sciences , 2022

Career track: Industry

Place of work: Longevity Vision Fund (Biotech VC)

Position: Analyst

Previous Experience:
Conscience VC (early stage biotech VC) World Bank European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Type of mentoring: short type: one consultation

Number of mentees you work with: 2

Program: MSc Data Science, 2021

Career track: Startup

Place of work: Picturino AI

Position: Founder & CTO

Previous Experience:
Please check LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamilzakirov/

Type of mentoring: long type: 2-3 meetings

Number of mentees you work with: 2

Some important & interesting facts about you:
Travel the world, play paddle tennis, free dive in my free time. Enjoy listening to podcasts with entrepreneurs and scientists