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Four Skoltech students won the Ilya Segalovich Award

Skoltech PhD students Maksim Velikanov, Ruslan Rakhimov, Taras Khakhulin and MSc student Petr Mokrov have been honored with the Ilya Segalovich Award which Yandex has been giving out annually since 2019 for remarkable accomplishments in computer science.

Maksim Velikanov’s research interests span the theory of deep learning, infinitely wide neural networks, and statistical physics. His papers were accepted at the NeurIPS and AISTATS conferences. Petr Mokrov who focuses on Wasserstein gradient flows, non-linear filtering, and Bayesian logistic regression spoke at NeurIPS. Ruslan Rakhimov studies neural imaging, computer vision, and deep learning. His papers were published at CVPR 2022, ACM SIGGRAPH, and WACV. Taras Khakhulin specializes in computer vision. He presented his research at the CVPR conferences.

The Ilya Segalovich Award recognizes individuals who have made exceptional achievements in machine learning, computer vision, information retrieval, data analysis, natural language processing, machine translation, and speech recognition and synthesis. Young researchers and research supervisors from public universities and research centers in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan can apply for the award.

“The award was a welcome surprise for me. Inspired by how complex systems are studied in physics, in my research I try to find various theoretical approaches for quantitative description of neural networks. This may seem odd in the case of machine learning, and in this sense, being praised by Yandex experts is especially important for me: this gives me confidence that I am on the right track. My special thanks to my supervisor Dmitry Yarotsky for his invaluable support. He not only helped me to quickly get the hang of a new topic but contributed to nearly every result I got,” Velikanov said.

“I am very happy that I could win the award! My thanks to my family, my supervisor Evgeny Burnaev, my colleagues, Skoltech, and Yandex. I think initiatives such as this one are very important both as a token of recognition and an encouragement to move forward,” Rakhimov commented.

“As a budding researcher in machine learning, I owe my accomplishments to my senior colleagues, Alexander Korotin in the first place, and my research supervisor Evgeny Burnaev. The award was a surprise for me, and I feel praised in advance and motivated to further explore the areas of data science that I find the most interesting,” Mokrov noted.

The winners will each receive a cash prize of one million rubles and an opportunity to apply for grants entitling them to use Yandex services in their research.

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