Selected awards
- Ilya Segalovich Award, Yandex scientific scholarship, 2019.
- Outstanding Reviewer Awards: NeurIPS (2020, 2021, 2022), ICML (2021, 2022), and ICLR (2021).
About me
I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at MBZUAI.
My research interests are in stochastic optimization for machine learning, including distributed and federated training, derivative-free methods, variational inequalities, robustness, privacy, and high-probability guarantees.
Before my faculty appointment, I held Research Scientist and Postdoctoral Fellow positions at MBZUAI, and I obtained my PhD at MIPT under the supervision of Alexander Gasnikov and Peter Richtárik.
Selected service and recognition
Editorial service
- Action Editor, Transactions on Machine Learning Research, since 2024.
Conference service
Academic training
PhD in Computer Science, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Phystech School of Applied Mathematics and Informatics. Thesis: Distributed and Stochastic Optimization Methods with Gradient Compression and Local Steps. Advisors: Alexander Gasnikov and Peter Richtárik. Slides and Video.
MSc in Applied Mathematics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Phystech School of Applied Mathematics and Informatics. Thesis: Derivative-free and stochastic optimization methods, decentralized distributed optimization. Advisor: Alexander Gasnikov.
BSc in Applied Mathematics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Department of Control and Applied Mathematics. Thesis: Accelerated Directional Search and Gradient-Free Methods with non-Euclidean prox-structure. Advisor: Alexander Gasnikov.
Research and teaching appointments
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Science, MBZUAI
Tenure-track faculty appointment in the Department of Statistics and Data Science.
Research Scientist, MBZUAI
Worked with the groups of Samuel Horváth and Martin Takáč.
Postdoctoral Fellow, MBZUAI
Hosted by Samuel Horváth and Martin Takáč.
Research Consultant, Mila
Research consultant at Mila, Montreal, in the group of Gauthier Gidel.
Junior Researcher, Yandex.Research-MIPT Lab
Junior researcher at the joint lab of Yandex.Research and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
Research Assistant, HSE
Research Assistant at the International Laboratory of Stochastic Algorithms and High-Dimensional Inference.
Junior Researcher, MIPT
Junior researcher at the Laboratory of Advanced Combinatorics and Network Applications.
Junior Researcher, MIPT and RANEPA-MIPT
Junior researcher at the Laboratory of Numerical Methods of Applied Structural Optimization and at the Joint Research Laboratory of Applied Mathematics.
Junior Researcher, IITP RAS
Junior researcher at the Department of Mathematical Methods of Predictive Modelling, Moscow.
Researcher, Huawei-MIPT Group
Researcher in Moscow.
Intern, Huawei Media Laboratory
Research and C++ programming internship in Moscow.
Teaching Assistant, MIPT
Teaching assistant for Algorithms and Models of Computation and Probability Theory.
Researcher, MIPT
Researcher in Peter Richtárik's group.