Maria Khodorchenko
Senior AI Researcher at ITMO University
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Top SchoolMaria Khodorchenko is a Senior AI Researcher and PhD in Artificial Intelligence with 11 years of experience building NLP solutions for industry and academia from Saint Petersburg. She combines deep learning expertise (PyTorch, HuggingFace) with hands-on product delivery—developing domain-specific chatbots, opinion mining and topic modeling systems—and leads teams and projects end-to-end. Maria publishes actively (10+ papers in venues like COLING) and maintains open-source tooling such as AutoTM, an evolutionary approach to automatic topic modeling. Her background in applied mathematics and prior project management training informs a pragmatic research-to-production mindset, evidenced by supervising multiple master students and shipping the car4u.app ML project.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at ITMO University
English, Русский, French
Github Skills (23)
evolutionary-algorithms10
hyperparameters10
topic-models10
genetic-algorithm9
travelling-salesman-problem9
benchmark8
security7
federated-learning7
privacy7
differential-privacy7
optimization7
machine-learning6
algorithm6
llm4
data-science2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ngc436/OptimisationAlgorithms
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
Searching global optima with firefly algorithm and solving traveling salesmen problem with genetic algorithm
Contributions:41 commits, 12 PRs, 26 pushes in 3 months
genetic-algorithmfirefly-algorithmoptimizationtravelling-salesman-problemglobal-optimization
ngc436/nlp-papers
Jan 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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