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Ivan P. Yamshchikov

Post-doc researcher for AI and cognition in the group of Prof. Dr. J. Jost at Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig, Germany)

About me

February 2017 - until present date - full-time | Post-doc researcher for AI and cognition in the group of Prof. Dr. J. Jost, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig, Germany). Research of generative AI and new methods for natural language processing.

• January 2018 - November 2020 - part-time | AI Evangelist in ABBYY, Munich, Germany. Consulting on RnD projects in the areas of NLP and machine learning. Part-time employment.

• February 2013 - June 2016 - full-time | Marie Curie Early-Stage Researcher in the project Novel Methods in Computational Finance, grant number FP7-ITN-STRIKE. University of Applied Sciences Zittau-Goerlitz (Zittau, Germany). Developing new models for financial liquidity.

• September 2014 - February 2017 - part-time|Head of New Products Research Group in Yandex (Moscow, Russia), Russian search-engine (NAS-DAQ:YNDX). New products in the area of human-AI interaction, cognition research.

• September 2012 - September 2013 - full-time | Senior analyst in Yandex. Data-driven business solutions, monitoring systems, user behaviour analytics.

• July 2011 - September 2012 - full-time | Data analyst in Yandex. Long-term forecasts, market analysis, segmentations.

• September 2010 - June 2011 - part-time | Teaching assistant in the IDE-department of the Halmstad University (Halmstad, Sweden).

• January 2005 - until July 2010 - part-time | Teacher in Academicheskaya Gimnaziya (Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia).

• September 2005 - November 2008 - part-time | Host of 'Igra Uma' TV-show in Russian TV-Radio-Company '5th Channel' (St. Petersburg, Russia).

• August 2004 - April 2009 - part-time | Creative manager in 'Smart Holidays' educational program (St. Petersburg, Russia).