Sergei Smirnov
Research Fellow AI Safety Research Program at SMEY
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolSergei Smirnov is an AI safety researcher and research engineer with a decade of experience delivering ML systems from prototype to production, currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Helsinki and serving as a Research Fellow in multiple AI safety programs. He has driven measurable impact—accelerating R&D timelines from years to weeks in biotech, improving model-driven yields by 30%, and scaling ML data pipelines 5x through distributed engineering. Comfortable working solo or in teams up to 15, he blends product-facing work (requirements, analytics) with low-level GPU cluster setup, ML architecture and open-source contributions to distributed ML tooling. A decorated math and programming olympiad winner who mentors students and built a widely rated ML course, he brings rigorous theory, practical engineering, and a focus on safety and interpretability to high-stakes AI problems.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Technical AI Safety Bootcamp based on ARENA curriculum, Technical AI Safety Bootcamp based on ARENA curriculum at ARENA (FAEB)Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, with honors, 3.9 out of 4.0, top-5 student, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, with honors, 3.9 out of 4.0, top-5 student at ITMO UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of HelsinkiMaster of Technology - MTech, Computer Science, with honors, 3.8 out of 4.0, Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Science, with honors, 3.8 out of 4.0 at LUT University
English, Finnish
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Github Skills (62)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sms-system/Performance__2019
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:105 commits, 95 pushes in 9 days
sms-system/AModale
Nov 2016 - Nov 2018
плагин для максимально удобных и доступных (A11Y) модальных окон
Contributions:1 release, 6 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 1 month
a11y
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