Timur Sokhin
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Huawei
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Top SchoolTimur Sokhin is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with over eight years of experience building and scaling LLMs, RLHF pipelines, and optimized AI systems for production. At Huawei he led migration and hardware-specific optimization of RLHF workflows to Ascend accelerators and helped deliver an LLM serving 4M+ users with practical mitigations for RLHF side effects like repetition and response inflation. His background spans NLP, computer vision, and bio-signal research—he has published production-grade solutions for PPG/EEG-based person-state estimation and integrated models with both medical and consumer wearables. A seasoned educator and researcher, he teaches NLP, neural architectures, and parallel programming while maintaining hands-on work in LoRA, distributed training, and performance tuning. Timur combines academic rigor (PhD-level study) with a pragmatic focus on resource-efficient architectures that preserve model quality under hardware constraints. Colleagues describe him as someone who translates cutting-edge research into reliable, deployable systems rather than theoretical prototypes.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Informatics and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Informatics and Computer Science at ITMO UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Ufa State Aviation Technical University
English, Russian, Французский
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Github Skills (45)
visualization10
python10
statistics10
neuroscience10
neuroimaging10
machine-learning9
genetic9
computer-graphics9
computer-vision8
smpl-model8
genetic-algorithm8
keras-models8
chainer8
theano8
keras-tensorflow7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Qwinpin/Neuvol
Apr 2018 - Apr 2021
Genetic algorithm framework to find the best neural network architecture with Keras
Contributions:1 release, 108 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years
pythonkeras-modelsdeep-learninggenetictheano
Qwinpin/twitter_crawler
Oct 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:65 commits, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
pythonold-tweetstwitter-apitwittercrawling
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