Igor Shalyminov
Applied Scientist at Amazon
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolIgor Shalyminov is a machine learning research engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in conversational AI, large language models, and dialog systems. He holds a PhD from Heriot-Watt University on data-efficient dialogue methods and has applied that research across industry teams at Amazon, AWS, Microsoft, Yandex and startups. Igor has led applied-science work on tool-calling LLM agents, controlled conversational theme detection, and novel faithfulness and summarization evaluation methods that contributed to multiple ACL/NAACL/DSTC papers. Now at Scale AI he focuses on LLM agents R&D for enterprise applications, bridging research rigor with production requirements. His background in search, ASR, and low-data dialogue techniques gives him an uncommon ability to translate evaluation-driven research into robust conversational products. Based in Sunnyvale, he combines deep academic training with practical engineering across both big-tech and fast-moving AI labs.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusSpecialist, Computing machinery, systems, and network, Specialist, Computing machinery, systems, and network at Moscow State University of Instrument Engineering and Computer ScienceMaster's degree, Internet Data Analysis, Master's degree, Internet Data Analysis at Yandex School of Data Analysis
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (90)
instagram10
python10
dialog10
deep-learning10
dialogue-systems10
sequence-to-sequence10
variational-autoencoder10
instagram-api10
lstm10
conformer10
ctc10
nlp10
artificial-intelligence10
data-science10
tensorflow10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ishalyminov/InstaPy
Sep 2018 - Aug 2019
📷 Instagram Bot - Like/Comment/Follow Automation Script
Contributions:41 pushes in 10 months
pythonfollowbotpython-scriptunfollow
WattSocialBot/alana_learning_to_rank
Aug 2018 - Apr 2019
Neural Response Ranker for Alana, Heriot-Watt University's Alexa Prize Socialbot
Contributions:34 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
nlpprizedialog-systemspythonresponse-selection
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