Curriculum Vitae
Download PDF ↗2023 – 2027
PhD in EECS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mathematical theory of transformers. Advisor: Prof. Yury Polyanskiy; also working with Prof. Philippe Rigollet.
Sep 2023 – now
MIT LIDS, Research Assistant
Dynamics of token representations in transformers as interacting particle systems on the sphere.
Jun 2026 – Aug 2026
Citadel Securities, Quantitative Researcher (Intern)
Deep learning research.
Jun 2025 – Aug 2025
Google, Student Researcher
Error detection in LLM reasoning.
Dec 2022 – Jul 2023
Huawei Technologies, R&D, Senior Engineer
Designed and ran federated learning experiments with the OpenFL framework.
Jun 2021 – Aug 2023
EIMI, Researcher
Product quantization research.
Apr 2022 – Aug 2022
Pinely (HFT firm), R&D, Data Scientist
ML-based feature extraction from market data.
2017 – 2023
BSc & MSc in Mathematics
Saint Petersburg State University
Plus the Data Science Program at the Computer Science Center (2019 – 2022): ML, DL, NLP, RL, statistics.
2022
HSE & Siberian.Capital student research competition — 1st prize
2021
Möbius Contest — 2nd prize
2020
International Mathematics Competition — Grand First Prize
Top 1.5% among all participants.
2016
International Mathematical Olympiad — Silver Medal
2016
Russian Mathematical Olympiad — Gold Medal
Technical skills
Core
Python (PyTorch, NumPy, pandas), C++, git, Linux/HPC
AI workflow
Agentic tooling — Claude Code, LLM APIs, custom agentic harness design
Publications
- Continuous First, Discrete Later: VQ-VAEs Without Dimensional Collapse
- Normalization in Attention Dynamics
- Clustering in Causal Attention Masking
- A limit theorem for the last exit time over a moving nonlinear boundary for a Gaussian process
- On the distribution of the last exit time over a slowly growing linear boundary for a Gaussian process