Akim Tsvigun is a Senior Researcher based in Amsterdam with eight years of hands-on experience in natural language processing and applied AI across industry and academia. He has led NLP teams at Semrush and progressed through research and engineering roles at Sberbank, AIRI, and Mains Laboratory, blending production-focused model development with academic rigor from his lecturing at the Higher School of Economics. Currently at Nebius AI and pursuing an MSc in Data Science and Statistics at KU Leuven, he bridges state-of-the-art research with practical deployment. Akim’s background shows a pattern of moving between research groups and product teams, which helps him translate experimental models into scalable solutions. Colleagues would describe him as a technically curious leader who keeps one foot in research and the other in engineering execution. Fluent across the research lifecycle, he’s especially adept at turning complex linguistic problems into reproducible, production-ready systems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Data Science and Statistics, Master of Science - MS, Data Science and Statistics at KU Leuven
Bachelor's degree, Mathematical Methods in Economics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematical Methods in Economics at Высшая Школа Экономики
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