Summary
Manvel Avetisian is an applied robotics researcher and engineering leader with over 16 years of experience building and deploying AI systems across search, speech, healthcare, genomics, and chip design at organizations including Google, Yandex, AMD, Sber AI Lab, and AIRI. He has led R&D teams of 100+ people and shipped clinically deployed medical AI, production search-ranking features, and optimization models for chip design, while publishing in MICCAI and IEEE venues. Currently he pursues independent research on low-cost autonomous navigation, exploring whether AI-first approaches can make sub-$500 delivery robots commercially viable through vision-based navigation and teleoperation optimization. Known for turning research into production, he shortened TTS training pipelines from months to weeks and built diagnostic models that rival radiologists. Based in Yerevan, he blends deep systems and ML expertise with hands-on robotics prototyping and real-world pilot validations.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University