Olga Petrova
Machine Learning Tech Lead at Criteo
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolOlga Petrova is a Machine Learning Tech Lead based in Paris with nine years of experience spanning deep learning R&D, applied modeling, and AI product development. Trained as a theoretical physicist (PhD, Johns Hopkins), she brings a first-principles, research-grade approach to framing ML problems and designing robust models. At Criteo she delivered sub-10 ms serving solutions for extremely noisy, high-cardinality ad datasets, achieving the first sizable uplift over longstanding logistic and GBDT baselines. Her career blends hands-on engineering and product ownership—from building ML PaaS ideas and a smart data annotation platform to consulting startups on end-to-end ML strategy. She excels at technical communication, translating complex methods for engineers, product teams, and non-technical stakeholders alike. An unexpected strength is her track record of turning physics-inspired model insights into production-ready systems that scale.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Deep Learning a 5-course specialization by deeplearning.ai, Deep Learning a 5-course specialization by deeplearning.ai at CourseraJohns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteProduct Manager Nanodegree, Product Manager Nanodegree at Udacity
English, Russian, French
Github Skills (45)
labeling10
bounding-box10
imagenet10
image-classification10
annotations10
semantic-segmentation10
training-data10
image-annotation10
generative-adversarial-network10
dali10
image-labeling10
object-detection10
computer-vision10
annotate10
pytorch9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
opetrova/SemiSupervisedPytorchGAN
Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
A semi supervised GAN for image classification implemented in Pytorch
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
pytorchsuperviseddeep-learningsemigenerative-adversarial-network
scaleway/frontalization
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Pytorch deep learning face frontalization model
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
computer-visiondalideep-learningface-frontalizationgan
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