Nikita Churkin
Lead Data Scientist (Personalization)
Bra, Piedmont, Italy
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Top SchoolNikita Churkin is a Lead Data Scientist specializing in personalization with nine years of experience across e-commerce, banking, and academia. He has deep hands-on expertise in tabular ML, time series, computer vision and NLP, and has built monitoring and meta-model systems to manage ML risk and performance in large banking environments. A competitive practitioner, he placed 33rd globally on Kaggle and 8th on Zindi, and he also designed and taught a highly rated university course on ML competitions. Nikita combines production-focused engineering—automating workflows that saved teams significant time—with research-oriented feature importance and AutoML work, making him adept at turning experimental models into reliable, auditable products. Based in Bra, Italy, he blends rigorous mathematical training with practical delivery in personalization and risk-aware ML.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mathematics, Master's degree, Mathematics at Московский Государственный Университет им. М.В. Ломоносова (МГУ)Bachelor's degree, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Economics at Российский Экономический Университет им. Г.В. ПлехановаMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Высшая Школа Экономики
Русский, English
Github Skills (25)
kaggle8
cuda8
classification8
regression8
cpu8
data-mining8
r8
computation8
catboost7
java7
gradient7
machine-learning7
gpu7
python7
scalable6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
NikitaChurkin/hse_intro_to_ml_comps
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
GlebFilatov/sber_kaggle
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
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