Ilya Makarov
Project Lead In GenAI Lead Data Scientist
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Makarov is an AI R&D leader and project lead specializing in GenAI and multi-agent LLM alignment, with 15+ years of cross-functional experience delivering product-focused AI in BigTech and deeptech startups. He has driven industrial deployments across healthcare, energy, climate and satellite imaging—building multimodal foundation models and LLM+RAG agents that cut processing times by orders of magnitude. A prolific researcher with 150+ publications and a Ph.D. in Computer Science, he blends academic rigor with hands-on product delivery, having led teams at Samsung, Huawei and VK and trained 30+ people on responsible multi-agent LLM development. Ilya’s unique strength is translating complex alignment and safety research into production-ready systems—e.g., multi-agent emotion-bias mitigation and configurable RAG for regulated B2B/B2G settings. He also advises fusion, avatar generation and game studios on robust RL and sim2real strategies, showing a rare mix of domain breadth from physics simulators to personalized on-device models. Based in London, he is known for building strong XFN bridges that align research, engineering and product stakeholders to measurable business impact.
10 years of coding experience
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information ScienceInternship Program Computer Science, Internship Program Computer Science at Birkbeck, University of LondonLomonosov Moscow State University
English, Russian, Ukrainian, Latin
Github Skills (11)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MakarovIA/crs
Feb 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
MakarovIA/iSchool.HSE-Informatics-Pro
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:39 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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