Boris Yangel
Head Of AI at Humanoid
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBoris Yangel is a Head of AI based in London with 12 years of experience applying deep learning across robotics, self-driving, NLP and drug discovery. He has led research and engineering teams at Humanoid, Nebius, Yandex and Microsoft Research, shipping production-grade perception, planning and language systems from voice assistants to autonomous driving. Known for bridging applied research and product delivery, he has led fine-tuning and inference performance efforts for LLM agents as well as behavioural prediction and planning stacks for self-driving cars. His background combines rigorous ML training from MSU with hands-on systems work—building Infer.NET at Microsoft Research and steering teams that powered Yandex’s Alice assistant. Colleagues describe him as a practical researcher who moves rapidly from prototypes to commercially valuable capabilities.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (70)
python10
deep-learning10
jax10
nethack10
data-science10
tensorflow10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
wandb9
neural-network9
nlp9
actor-critic9
checkpoint9
gpu9
autodiff9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hr0nix/omega
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
A number of agents (PPO, MuZero) with a Perceiver-based NN architecture that can be trained to achieve goals in nethack/minihack environments.
Contributions:2 reviews, 110 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 3 months
flaxmodel-based-rlmctsmuzerogoals
hr0nix/ml-notes
Aug 2022 - Feb 2025
A collection of notes about various machine-learning related topics
Contributions:3 PRs, 55 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
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