I grew up in Moscow. I studied computer science at MSU’s Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, alternating full days on campus with full days at an institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where I fine-tuned BERT for various information-extraction tasks. My first real ML job — the start of figuring out the difference between a model that fits and one that ships.

I came to Switzerland aiming for a PhD at EPFL. The route’s been a detour: an MSc in computer science from the University of Geneva, then a stretch at UNIL’s Digital Markets lab on the intersection of AI and digital-platform economics. I’m now an ML research engineer at EPFL’s MLO group, working on LLMs. The PhD is still the goal.

On the side: jseek.co — a watchlist-style aggregator for company career pages — which began as the scraper I wrote for myself during a long Swiss job hunt and grew into a small product I still run. Something else is usually half-built next to it.

Currently — May 2026

• Working on LLMs at MLO, EPFL.
• Running jseek.co as a small side product.
• Settling deeper into Lausanne — paperwork, neighbourhood, the lake.

What I write about

• Life in Switzerland — work permits, apartments, the small machinery of moving here. Most posts so far live here.
• ML and research — notes from the LLM side of the work, eventually papers.
• Building — small products and the engineering behind them. jseek.co lives here.

Publications

Papers will land here as they come out. Until then, Google Scholar and ORCID are the canonical record.

Contact

Best for collaborations and opportunities — [email protected]. Slow to reply, but I do reply.