Daniel Kornev
Chief Executive Officer at AI Successors
Foster City, California, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Kornev is a seasoned AI product and executive leader with 11 years of experience building conversational assistants, smart speaker features, and developer-facing AI tooling across startups and tech giants. As CEO of AI Successors and Sentius, and former CPO at DeepPavlov.ai, he has led product strategy, shipped multi-skill assistant platforms, and defined DSLs and SDKs that bridge research and production for dialog systems. His engineering-product career includes hands-on delivery at Yandex (Alice and Yandex.Station) and stints at Microsoft and Google, giving him deep expertise in speech, entity linking, KBQA, and goal-aware dialog management. He combines rigorous academic training in context-aware computing with practical startup experience—founding an award-winning cognitive assistant and raising seed funding. Not obvious from titles: he routinely designs developer UX (VS Code extensions, SDKs) to accelerate scenario-driven skill creation, reflecting a focus on tooling that scales AI adoption. Based in Foster City, he blends research-grade thinking with pragmatic product execution to turn conversational AI research into shipped products.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Context-aware Computing & Computer-Human Interaction, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Context-aware Computing & Computer-Human Interaction at Higher School of EconomicsAI-Driven Leadership: Strategies for the future, AI-Driven Leadership: Strategies for the future at Stanford Online High SchoolTechnical Grad Project Management Culture Consequences Strategic Thinking Public Speaking Software Engineering, Technical Grad Project Management Culture Consequences Strategic Thinking Public Speaking Software Engineering at Microsoft Academy for College HiresM.S. in Computer Science Software Development Databases Project Management Math Physics Economics English, M.S. in Computer Science Software Development Databases Project Management Math Physics Economics English at Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (Technical University)Structure of Public Talks Talk Styles Speech Logic Intonations & Pronouncation, Structure of Public Talks Talk Styles Speech Logic Intonations & Pronouncation at Yandex Speaker Institute
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (165)
entity-extraction10
xaml10
windows10
gmail10
dialogue-systems10
deep-learning10
uno10
wpf10
dotnet10
ai10
conversational-ai10
intent-classification10
nlp10
chatbot10
nlp-machine-learning10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
danielkornev/CourierShell
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
A custom Courier-like Shell for Windows 10 running on small form factor devices (tablets). It's based on the fantastic MobileShell by @ADeltaX
Contributions:45 commits, 4 PRs, 20 pushes in 16 days
shellwindows
deeppavlov/dp-dream-demos
Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
Most basic AI Assistant demo derived from the DeepPavlov Dream AI Assistant.
Contributions:58 commits, 13 PRs, 45 pushes in 2 months
aideeppavlovdp-agentdeeppavlov-agentdp-dream
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