Ihor Stepanov
Co-Founder at Knowledgator Engineering
Kyiv, Ukraine
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Top SchoolIhor Stepanov is a Kyiv-based co-founder and AI-focused engineer with five years of experience building systems that turn unstructured data into high-quality, queryable knowledge bases. As Co-Founder of Knowledgator Engineering he leads efforts to automate database construction for organizations, researchers, and developers, blending practical engineering with domain understanding from his biotechnology background. He also advises Daikon AI and previously contributed to molecular biology research, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective on AI-for-science problems. Ihor is motivated by developing AI systems that amplify human knowledge and has hands-on experience taking ideas from lab research to startup product. His work sits at the intersection of life sciences and machine learning, enabling tooling that makes complex data discoverable and usable.
4 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Biology and chemistry, Biology and chemistry at CRPLBachelor's degree Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Bachelor's degree Biotechnology and Bioengineering at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
English, Ukrainian
Github Skills (57)
pytorch10
named-entity-recognition10
python10
machine-learning10
prompt-tuning10
large-language-models10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
bert10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
information-extraction10
transformers9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Knowledgator/GLiClass
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Generalist and Lightweight Model for Text Classification
Contributions:1 review, 18 PRs, 37 pushes in 9 months
Ingvarstep/Categorical-word-embedding-with-GCN
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
GCN-based word embedding model, which utilizes information about the structure of sentences using dependencies parsing
Contributions:1 review, 8 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 6 months
nlpdependenciesword-embeddingssentencessentence-similarity
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