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About me

I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science in the Division of Computing and Mathematical Sciences 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

Conference service

  • Area Chair: NeurIPS (2025, 2026), ICLR (2026, 2027), ICML (2026).
  • Senior Program Committee member: AAAI (2027).
  • Co-organizer: ICOMP (2025, 2026).

Academic training

Research and teaching appointments

Aug 2025 - present

Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science, MBZUAI

Tenure-track faculty appointment in the Division of Computing and Mathematical Sciences.

Feb 2022 - May 2022

Research Consultant, Mila

Research consultant at Mila, Montreal, in the group of Gauthier Gidel.

Sep 2020 - Jan 2022

Junior Researcher, Yandex.Research-MIPT Lab

Junior researcher at the joint lab of Yandex.Research and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

May 2020 - Dec 2021

Research Assistant, HSE

Research Assistant at the International Laboratory of Stochastic Algorithms and High-Dimensional Inference.

May 2020 - Aug 2022

Junior Researcher, MIPT

Junior researcher at the Laboratory of Advanced Combinatorics and Network Applications.

Feb 2020 - Dec 2020

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.

Nov 2019 - Apr 2020

Junior Researcher, IITP RAS

Junior researcher at the Department of Mathematical Methods of Predictive Modelling, Moscow.

Aug 2019 - Jul 2020

Researcher, Huawei-MIPT Group

Researcher in Moscow.

May 2019 - Aug 2019

Intern, Huawei Media Laboratory

Research and C++ programming internship in Moscow.

Feb 2018 - Jun 2019

Teaching Assistant, MIPT

Teaching assistant for Algorithms and Models of Computation and Probability Theory.