Marina Barannikov
Head Of Research at Unaite
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolMarina Barannikov is Head of Research with seven years' experience building and deploying generative AI systems at the intersection of art and language from Paris. Currently leading research at Unaite after an ML & robotics internship at Hugging Face, she combines hands-on model engineering with production-focused optimization techniques like FSDP, low-precision training and LoRA for diffusion models. As a freelance ML engineer she has fine-tuned open-source LLMs, built chatbots and image APIs, and explored U-Net and diffusion architectures for product rendering and advertising. A Dauphine-PSL student in applied mathematics and computer science, she brings strong theoretical foundations to practical transfer-learning and parallelization challenges. Marina’s work reflects an unusual blend of creative AI applications and systems-level efficiency improvements, making models both expressive and cost-effective. She maintains an academic presence through publications visible on Google Scholar, signaling a research-driven approach to applied ML.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Collège, général, Collège, général at École alsacienneBaccalauréat général, Baccalauréat général at Lycée Louis-le-GrandBachelor, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Université Paris Dauphine- PSL
Russian, French, Chinese, Korean, English
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Github Skills (14)
playlists10
mp39
python9
spotify9
music9
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youtube7
metadata7
tic-tac-toe6
artificial-intelligence6
dictionary6
minimax6
matplotlib6
discounts3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
marinabar/lerobot
May 2024 - Mar 2025
🤗 LeRobot: State-of-the-art Machine Learning for Real-World Robotics in Pytorch
Contributions:209 pushes, 32 branches in 10 months
marinabar/cifar10
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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