Alexander Kotov
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Summary
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SeniorAlexander 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
Github Skills (15)
entity10
information-retrieval8
knowledge-graph8
decomposition7
regression4
python4
tensorflow3
machine-learning3
pytorch3
tensor2
cupy2
numpy2
jax2
tensorly2
mxnet2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rusillini/rusillini.github.io
Jan 2022 - Apr 2026
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
rusillini/quse
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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