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Sergei Volodin

About

AI research, AI safety, Python, C++

EPFL graduate interested in AI safety research
- Experience in research (Google, EPFL, CHAI Berkeley) with publications
- Experience with robotics and augmented reality
- Experience with backend/front-end development

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

Workplace
Co-founder, Lead backend/ML Developer
Location

Vaud

Employement type

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

Workplace
Summer intern
Location

Berkeley, California

Employement type

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... :)

Google

2019-11 - 2020-02

Workplace
Software Engineering Intern
Location

Mountain View, California

Employement type

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

Workplace
Research Assistant
Location

Vaud

Employement type

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

Workplace
Founder & lead backend developer
Location

Moscow

Employement type

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

Workplace
Research Intern
Location

Moscow

Employement type

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

Workplace
Software Engineer
Location

Zürich

Employement type

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