Alex Pashevich
Research Director at RBC Borealis
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAlex Pashevich is a Research Lead at RBC Borealis with 11 years of experience translating cutting‑edge machine learning research into enterprise-scale financial products. He has led development of AI-driven pricing models and deep‑learning fraud detection systems, co-authoring patents and peer‑reviewed papers while mentoring research teams through end-to-end model deployment. His PhD work produced the Episodic Transformer—an influential full‑history transformer agent for embodied vision-and-language navigation—and advanced sim-to-real transfer for robotics. A proven bridge between academia and industry, he co-founded Vancouver AI Connect to grow a 300+ member research‑industry community in Vancouver. Alex combines rigorous theory from top European and Russian institutions with pragmatic engineering that delivers measurable business impact in high-stakes finance. He often pairs novel model architectures with production optimizations (e.g., training and data‑loading efficiency) to accelerate real-world adoption.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Université Grenoble AlpesBachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics and Physics, Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics and Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Grenoble INP - UGA
English, French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Russian
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Github Skills (49)
simulator9
robotics9
simulation9
python9
pybullet8
deep-learning8
vision-and-language8
reinforcement-learning8
tensorflow8
machine-learning8
kinematics8
visual-effects7
artificial-intelligence7
neural-network7
collision-detection7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alexpashevich/dqn
Feb 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
alexpashevich/runtools
May 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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