Erik Arakelyan is a Senior Researcher in machine learning with 11 years of experience, currently working on large language models, reasoning, and neuro-symbolic AI at NVIDIA and Toptal. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Copenhagen and has combined academic rigor with industry impact through visiting researcher roles at Amazon and Cohere focused on grounded LLM reasoning and knowledge-graph augmentation. Erik has led applied ML teams at Arm and built production pipelines for real-time policy and tourism analytics, demonstrating a rare blend of scalable engineering and deep research. He also teaches NLP and deep learning, mentoring MSc students and shaping practical coursework, and brings cross-domain expertise from image processing to time-series and ETL systems. Notably, his work emphasizes explainability and multi-hop query answering over knowledge graphs—areas that bridge symbolic structure and modern LLM capabilities.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen
University College London
Learning Objective-C and IOS Development, Learning Objective-C and IOS Development at MLAB ECA
CS Mathematics and Computer Science, CS Mathematics and Computer Science at American University of Armenia
High School Graduation Atestat Mathematics and Physics, High School Graduation Atestat Mathematics and Physics at Physmath
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