Maria Khodorchenko
Senior AI Researcher at ITMO University
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Summary
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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 (27)
genetic8
heuristics7
game-theory7
differential-privacy6
multi-objective-optimization6
searching6
genetic-algorithm6
federated-learning5
security5
machine-learning5
privacy4
python4
nlp3
algorithm3
firefly3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ngc436/nlp-papers
Jan 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 6 months
ngc436/WrapBigARTM
Aug 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 1 year
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