Sergei Volodin
Location
Zürich
Field of Study
Computer Science/Computational Neuroscience
Expertise
AI, AR, robotics, full-stack
Skills
API
Academic Research
Arduino
Artificial Intelligence
Atmel AVR
Augmented Reality
C++
Computer Science
Computer Vision
Data Analysis
Debian
DevOps
Distributed Algorithms
Django
Docker
Embedded C++
English
Git
Github
Google TensorFlow
Human-robot Interaction
LaTeX
Linux
Machine Learning
Matlab
Microcontrollers
MySQL
Nokia Qt
OpenCV
OpenGL
Python
QML
React.js
Robotics
SQL
TypeScript
Ubuntu
Open for
parttime
fulltime
Work Experience
Tournesol
2020-06 - 2021-05
Co-founder, Lead backend/ML Developer
Vaud
cofounder
We collected preferences in a form of 50k comparisons of youtube videos from ~2k people out of which 500 are affiliated with research institutions. The results were processed in real time with our byzantine-proof algorithms and are available for the general public in our browser extension. The analysis is available as a whitepaper. The project is with a bigger team at EPFL now
CHAI Berkeley
2020-06 - 2020-09
Summer intern
Berkeley, California
internship
Working on better defenses against adversarial policies in multi-agent reinforcement learning at the Center for Human-Compatible AI at the University of California, Berkeley. We wanted to find defenses and instead found much more adversarial policies... :)
2019-11 - 2020-02
Software Engineering Intern
Mountain View, California
internship
Working at Google Research on Causal Models in Reinforcement Learning. We decided to work on uncovering the causal graph of an environment, and to deal with spurious correlations we propose to do interventions. The project resulted in a paper at ICLR CLRM workshop
EPFL
2017-09 - 2019-10
Research Assistant
Vaud
parttime
- 2017-2018: working on an augmented reality & robots for education. the AR library is on GitHub, research paper pending after a run at the International School of Geneva - 2018-2019: working on fault tolerance of neural networks. Paper is on arXiv and the project was presented at the DS3 summer school.
EscapeControl
2015-06 - 2018-07
Founder & lead backend developer
Moscow
parttime
- we provide software solutions for escape rooms - we allow for cloud-based remote control of the escape room - all hardware is remotely controlled - about 40 quests used our framework - project sold to one of our clients
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
2016-09 - 2017-07
Research Intern
Moscow
internship
Extended the algorithm to search for non-convexities in images of quadratic maps to the case when the number of them is infinite. The paper is on arXiv and the project was presented at a summer school
Fave For Fans
2021-09 - 2022-05
Software Engineer
Zürich
fulltime
Backend engineering with TypeScript and ArangoDB-based database
Academic Experience
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne -
2017.09 - 2021.04
Master of Science, MSc in Computer Science/Computational Neurosciences
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology -
2012.08 - 2017.06
Bachelor of Science, BSc in Applied Mathematics with a focus in ML