Maksims Volkovs
SVP, Head Of AI at The Fields Institute For Research In Mathematical Sciences
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMaksims Volkovs is an AI executive and co-founder turned bank technology leader with a PhD in Machine Learning from the University of Toronto and nine years of industry experience leading large-scale AI teams. As SVP and Head of AI at TD, he scaled post-acquisition Layer 6 into a 100+ person research and engineering organization that delivered multi-million dollar ML solutions across the bank and produced research in top venues plus over 150 patent filings. He previously co-led Layer 6’s award-winning time-series and recommender systems work—driving wins in the ACM RecSys Challenge (2017, 2018, 2023)—and has roots as a research scientist and quantitative analyst. Comfortable bridging deep research and production, he combines academic rigor with product impact and board-level perspective through roles like his appointment at the Fields Institute. An accomplished inventor and competition-winning practitioner, he’s as likely to publish in Nature as to ship enterprise prediction platforms that move the business needle.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Machine Learning at University of Toronto
Github Skills (17)
image-retrieval10
recommender-system10
graph-traversal9
exploit9
ai8
autoencoder7
convolution6
python5
pytorch4
representation-learning4
collaborative-filtering4
foundation-models3
graph3
inference2
scene-graph2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
layer6ai-labs/DropoutNet
Nov 2017 - Dec 2022
Code for the NeurIPS'17 paper "DropoutNet: Addressing Cold Start in Recommender Systems"
Contributions:25 commits, 15 pushes in 5 years 2 months
recommender-system
layer6ai-labs/EGT
Apr 2019 - Aug 2020
Code for the CVPR'19 paper "Explore-Exploit Graph Traversal for Image Retrieval"
Contributions:11 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 4 months
exploitgraph-traversalimage-retrieval
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