Pavel Metrikov is a data scientist with five years of industry experience and a deep research background bridging applied physics, mathematics, and computer science. Based in Bellevue, he works at Microsoft on data-driven products and has longstanding ties to academic research through roles at the Institute for Problems of Information Transmission and a PhD program at Northeastern. His early internships at Yandex and Microsoft focused on learning-to-rank and search-layout effects on ad engagement, reflecting a strong specialty in statistical modeling, simulation, and noisy-label learning. Pavel combines production-oriented software engineering experience (J2EE, Oracle) with rigorous scientific software development, enabling him to translate complex models into deployable solutions. An understated strength is his continuity across research and product environments, allowing him to tackle both foundational algorithmic challenges and real-world system constraints.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Appl. Physics & Mathematics, MS, Appl. Physics & Mathematics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Northeastern University
A fast, distributed, high performance gradient boosting (GBT, GBDT, GBRT, GBM or MART) framework based on decision tree algorithms, used for ranking, classification and many other machine learning tasks.
Contributions:1 PR, 80 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 11 months
A fast, distributed, high performance gradient boosting (GBT, GBDT, GBRT, GBM or MART) framework based on decision tree algorithms, used for ranking, classification and many other machine learning tasks.
Contributions:17 reviews, 1 commit, 2 PRs in 1 day
kagglepythondata-mininglightgbmmicrosoft
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