Curriculum Vitae

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2023 – present

PhD in Computer Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research on mathematical theory of transformers. Advisor: Prof. Yury Polyanskiy.

2023 – present

MIT LIDS, Research Assistant

Research project on mathematical theory of transformers.

Jun 2025 – Aug 2025

Google, Student Researcher

Research project on error detection in LLM reasoning.

Dec 2022 – Jul 2023

Huawei Technologies, R&D, Senior Engineer

Designed and implemented experiments using OpenFL framework for Federated Learning research.

Jun 2021 – Aug 2023

EIMI, Researcher

Research project on product quantization.

Apr 2022 – Aug 2022

Pinely (HFT firm), R&D, Data Scientist

Analyzed market data using ML techniques. Explored cross-exchange arbitrage strategies.

2017 – 2023

BSc & MSc in Mathematics

Saint Petersburg State University

Foundation in analysis, algebra, topology, and probability theory.

2019 – 2022

Data Science Program

Computer Science Center

Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, Reinforcement Learning, Inference & Information, Statistics.

2020

International Mathematics Competition — Grand First Prize

Top 1.5% among all participants.

2016

International Mathematical Olympiad — Silver Medal

Top 19% among all participants.

2016

Russian Mathematical Olympiad — Gold Medal

Top 4% among all participants.

Areas & Tools

Mathematics

Probability theory, measure theory, functional analysis, optimization, statistics

AI / ML Theory

Transformers, attention dynamics, NLP, deep learning, federated learning, information theory

Tools

Python, PyTorch, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, LaTeX, Git

Publications

  • Normalization in Attention Dynamics Nikita Karagodin, Yury Polyanskiy · NeurIPS 2025 (39th)
  • Clustering in Causal Attention Masking Nikita Karagodin, Yury Polyanskiy · NeurIPS 2024 (38th)
  • A limit theorem for the last exit time over a moving nonlinear boundary for a Gaussian process Nikita Karagodin · Probability and Mathematical Statistics, 2022
  • On the distribution of the last exit time over a slowly growing linear boundary for a Gaussian process Nikita Karagodin · Theory of Probability and Its Applications, 2021

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