Alexander Kotov
Associate Professor
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Kotov is an Associate Professor and head of the TEANA lab at Wayne State University with 11 years of experience applying machine and deep learning to biomedical informatics, natural language processing, and information retrieval. Trained with a Ph.D. from UIUC and postdoctoral experience at Emory, he blends rigorous academic research with practical collaborations on papers and grants. His work centers on developing novel algorithms and adapting state-of-the-art methods to real-world textual data challenges, often mentoring students toward careers in industry and academia. Based in Detroit, he balances research with active outdoor pursuits—stand-up paddleboarding, skiing, golf—and strategic thinking honed at the chessboard, which informs his pragmatic yet innovative approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Computer Science, Ph.D, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (14)
decomposition8
regression5
python4
machine-learning3
pytorch3
tensorflow3
cupy2
numpy2
neural-network2
deep-learning2
tensorly2
mxnet2
jax1
tensor1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rusillini/rusillini.github.io
Jan 2022 - Nov 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
rusillini/quse
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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