Maksym Taranukhin
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UBC Computer Science
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMaksym Taranukhin is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia with 13 years of software and research experience focused on making large language models more reliable, interpretable, and socially responsible. He holds a PhD from Dalhousie University and bridges academic rigor with practical engineering, having built production software earlier in his career at CarteNav, NTT DATA, and Luxoft. His work spans conversational AI, social media analysis, and legal NLP, with publications in top-tier conferences and collaborations that translate NLP advances into real-world applications. A seasoned mentor, reviewer, and conference organizer, he is motivated by human-centered outcomes and improving LLM robustness—notably combining low-level engineering experience in computer vision and embedded Android work with high-level model trustworthiness research. Based in Vancouver, Maksym brings a rare blend of applied software development and deep research expertise to interdisciplinary AI projects.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics at Odessa National 'I.I. Mecnikov' UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Dalhousie University
Russian, Ukrainian, English
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Github Skills (11)
transfer-learning7
nlp6
natural-language-processing5
hydra5
pytorch5
zap4
pytorch-lightning4
transformer4
bert4
lightning3
transformers3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zmaximka/slam
Feb 2013 - Apr 2013
Contributions:16 commits in 1 month
maksym-taranukhin/stance_reasoner
May 2023 - May 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 11 months
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