A senior researcher (PostDoc), Data and AI specialist with over 15 years of professional experience in Internet technology and research projects. A person who is organized and analytical, enjoys problem solving and works well in a team. I am interested in projects that involve: R&D, Machine learning, Robotics, Data analysis, Programming, Cloud computing, Video streaming and Network technologies where my expertise can be useful.
Networking: Routing, Switching, QoS, Network emulation, SDN, Multicasting and IGMP
Video streaming: Adaptive streaming, Video 360°, Video players, Video analytics, QoE models and metrics
Encoding: Video codecs, Objective metrics, Per-title/scene encoding, Tiled-based encoding
Virtual collaboration: Microsoft Teams, Jira, Slack, Trello, Zoom, Google Meet
Professional experience
2023 - present: International Center for Quantum Optics & Quantum Technologies LLC, Russia
☑ Senior ML/RL Researcher Activities and duties:
Reinforcement learning algorithms, AI/ML, R&D, Programming, Data analysis
Using deep reinforcement learning for robotics manipulation. Benchmarking reinforcement learning algorithms on real-world robots
Learning and using SOTA RL algorithms. Creating training/testing pipelines in the cloud, MLOps
Technology monitoring, reading scientific articles, checking existing approaches and methods
2021 - 2022: DEIF Wind Power Technology, Austria
☑ Data and AI Specialist Activities and duties:
Data analysis, AI/ML, R&D, Programming, Reinforcement learning algorithms, Anomaly detection in time series data
MLOps (MLflow, Airflow, DVC, AWS SageMaker). Developing cloud based ML solution
Developing reinforcement learning agents and models to optimize the performance of wind turbines. Designing new optimization methods
Designing reward functions for reinforcement learning agents. Developing digital twins of existing wind turbines
Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
Building analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights for the engineers and business teams
Developing the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from various data sources using ‘big data’ technologies
Writing project reports and documentation. Making presentations
2016 - 2021: Institute of Information Technology (ITEC), University of Klagenfurt, Austria
☑ PostDoc Researcher / Senior Researcher in various projects in collaboration with Bitmovin company (https://bitmovin.com) Activities and duties:
Developing models and software for video player testing, encoding time/quality prediction, scene detection
Writing research papers, reviewing papers, mentoring interns, preparing testbeds and demos
Developing models for better utilization of Amazon EC2 Spot instances. Performance and cost optimizationn. Performance testing
Using Machine learning models and ANNs to improve video streaming and video encoding applications
Applying Reinforcement learning algorithms to improve adaptive video streaming
Creating and handling large data sets. Analyzing obtained data and results and making them visible
Participating in generating ideas, writing project proposals, and reports (FFG APOLLO project)
Participating in regular meetings. Collaboration with stakeholders from Bitmovin (https://bitmovin.com/)
Attending conferences and exhibitions to present scientific results and Bitmovin technologies and products
Writing innovation briefs and technical documentation
2005 - 2016: Regional Center for New Information Technologies (RCNIT), Petrozavodsk State University, Russia ☑ Leading programmer, Project manager. Department of Telecommunication of RCNIT Activities and duties:
Participation in the development of media services, and systems. Monitoring, modeling and analysis of network services
Installing and configuring network and video conferencing devices and servers. Integrating Video over IP technology
Preparing tender documentation for projects. Writing technical documentation
Writing project proposals, grant proposals, and reports. Making presentations
Technical support for network services, video broadcasts and video conferencing
Teaching students and university staff (Cisco CCNA course)
2011 - 2014: Petrozavodsk State University, Russia ☑ Researcher, Ph.D. student. Department of Probability Theory and Data Analysis. Faculty of Mathematics and Information Technology Activities and duties:
Leading research project Multimedia Quality Tester. Responsible for a team of several engineers
Conducting research, designing solution, and emulation of video transmission over the Internet. Developing models and software
Writing project proposals, grant proposals, and reports. Writing research papers, and PhD thesis
Teaching students (Multimedia streaming technologies and services course)
2008: VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, Finland ☑ Programmer Activities and duties:
Project management software development (TaskMasterPro++)
Designing modules and solution. Work with a database
Writing technical reports. Communicating with stakeholders
Education
PhD degree in Engineering, Petrozavodsk State University (PetrSU), Russia
BS/MS degree in Engineering and Technology with major in Informatics and Computer science, PetrSU, Russia
Secondary (Complete) General Education. Silver Medal Award. Russia
Relevant projects
2020 - 2021: APOLLO project: Intelligent video platform for HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS). FFG project, Austria
2019: Tiroler Cloud: A federated Cloud for energy-aware resource provisioning for industrial and scientific applications technologies. FFG project, Austria
2017 - 2019: Next Generation Video Streaming 'PROMETHEUS'. The main objective of PROMETHEUS was to research and develop the next generation video streaming infrastructure. FFG project, Austria
2016-2017: Research project: 'Adaptive Video Streaming Evaluation framework for the automated testing of adaptive media players (AdViSE)', Austrian government research grant, Austria
2013: Research project: Multimedia Quality Tester, Petrozavodsk State University, Russia
Teaching
Multimedia Streaming Technologies and Services, 2015 - 2016
ZTE Communications (International ICT R&D Journal), 2019
CHIP magazine (a computer and communications magazine published by CHIP Holding), 2015
Conferences
Windpower Data and Digital Innovation Forum 2022, BigMM 2020, CSTB Telecom & Media 2020, MMSYS (2016-2018, 2020), ICIP 2018, FRUCT (2011, 2016, 2017), DIVERSE 2012, Media & Learning 2012
Honors, Awards and Grants
2nd prize of the Houska award for Bitmovin company in the category 'Forschung und Entwicklung in KMU' fot the project 'Prometheus', in which I was a Senior researcher, 2020
Award winner of Scholarships of the Scholarship Foundation of the Republic of Austria for Postdocs, 2016
Award winner of Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window program for doctoral students "Integration, Interaction and Institutions - Triple I project", 2011
Russian Federation Government grant UMNIK for young scientists, 2011
Prize winner of Sun Microsystems contest Idea2Project, 2009
Professional Activities and Memberships
Organizing Chair, Indo-European Conference on Next Generation Computing (IECNGC), 2021
Member of Technical Program Committee, ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2021
Member of Technical Program Committee, The Thirteenth International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA), 2021
Member of Technical Program Committee, The Thirteenth International Conference on Creative Content Technologies (CONTENT), 2021
Member of Technical Program Committee, FRUCT conference, 2020-2021
Member of International Advisory Committee, International Conference on Computing Science, Communication and Security (COMS2), 2020-2021
Member of Program Committee, International Semantic Intelligence Conference (ISIC), 2021
Guest Editor: Special Issue on Semantic Intelligence and Web Engineering, International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE), 2020
Member of Program Committee, International Workshop on Immersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems (MMVE '20), 2020
Journal Reviewer. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2021
Conference Reviewer. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2020
Journal Reviewer. Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer Journal), 2020
Journal Reviewer. Signal, Image and Video Processing (Springer Journal), 2020
Member of Technical Program Committee, ACM MMSys Conference, 2019
Internships
University of Klagenfurt, Institute of Information Technology, Austria, 2016-2017 (10 months)
Technical University of Denmark, Department of Photonics Engineering, Denmark, 2012 (2 weeks)
University of Latvia, Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, Latvia, 2012 (5 months)
University of Leuven, Media and Learning Division, Belgium, 2011 (5 months)
Courses
Ultimate WIND ENERGY Masterclass. Udemy course, 2021
Go: The Complete Developer's Guide (Golang), 2021
AWS Essential Training for Developers, LinkedIn Learning, 2021
Statistics for Business Analytics and Data Science, Udemy course, 2020
Cloud Computing Course (one full semester), University of Klagenfurt, Austria, 2019
Machine Learning: Hands-On Python & R In Data Science, Udemy course, 2019
Deep Learning: Hands-On Artificial Neural Networks, Udemy course, 2019
EMC Cloud Tech Training course, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2016
IoT Intel Edison Training, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2016
