My Recent Talks
December 2023
- December 15th - Generative AI Workshop
- December 13th - GPT Workshop at MGIMO University
- December 6th - Talk Is AI capable of creating art and how can an artist cooperate with it? [(Video)] (this talk was rated 5.0 by the audience, and was one of two best talks at the conference)
- December 5th - Workshop Harry Potter and Retrival-Augmented Generation at YaTalks 2023.
November 2023
- November 28 - Lecture at TechnoLyceum on Generative AI
- November 23-25 - Expert at the International Finals of Hacks AI
- November 17 - Digital World. Food Created by AI - in Physics and Lyrics programme on Mayak radio station (with Andrey Kuznetsov)
- November 15 - Panel discussion Why developers teach, and teachers do development at YaC/E conference (with Aram Pakhtchanyan, Vasily Merzlyakov, Anna Ermakova, Artem Rudakovskiy, and Max Kashichkin) (in the “Pedagogical workshop” section)
- November 13 - Workshop Creating smart domain-oriented question-answering bots in Yandex DataSphere/YandexGPT at the PiterPy conference [slides, code]
- November 13 - ChatGPT/YandexGPT as personal developer’s slave talk at PiterPy conference [slides, code]
October 2023
- October 28 - Magic and creativity of artificial intelligence - lecture at the days of young photography in Tula [slides]
- Oct 27th - Roundtable. Image Generators vs. Professional Photography - in Physics and Lyrics programme on Mayak radio station
- Oct 22nd - AI Workshop at Youth Guestroom project of Blagosphere
- Oct 20th - How to Win AI Hackathons Talk at Atomick Hack MEPhI
- Oct 12th - Talk on Generative AI for graduate school students of Preuniversarium of Moscow Aviation Institute
September 2023
Sept 21st - Panel Discussion on Large Language Model Revolution at SmartDev Conference, with Mikhail Burtsev, Alexander Krainov, Ivan Oseledets, Maxim Eremenko, moderated by Sergey Markov
Sept 16th - Talk at DotNext 2023 Moscow, Mathematics behind Functional Programming using F# Examples
Sept 12th - Webinar DataSphere for Science and Education (video)
Sept 8th - Talk at IEEE HISTELCON 23 Conference on FidoNet and Generative AI: A New Approach to Museumification of Historical Content Resources
Sept 7th - Master-class on Building domain-specific chat bots with LangChain and Yandex GPT at Practical ML Conference
Sept 4th - Talk on Generative AI at HSE ARTificial Fest
August 2023
Aug 25th - Talk on Using ChatGPT and other generative models at MGIMO-Skolkovo Summer School
Aug 1st - Talk Magic of Generative AI in Cinematography: from Impressionist paintings to Infinite Films at McGuffin Film School
July 2023
- July 4th - Roundtable discussion IT Solutions that Change our Lives at Russian Creativity Week
June 2023
- June 23rd - Talk “Magic of Generative AI” in Vitebsk Contemporary Art Center, part of FotoKrok 2023 Photo Festival
May 2023
- May 28 - Talk at the Main Stage of Geek Picnic 2023 on Generative AI, followed by the Panel Discussion
- May 24-25 - Hackathon on Infinite ScreenLife with Bazelevs and HSE, part of Youth IT Forum in Skolkovo
- May 19-20 - Expert at Hacks-AI.ru in Moscow
- May 17 - Presentation Skill Master Class at Spring School on IT and Math Modelling
- May 13 - Presentation on ChatGPT and Other Transformers that Changed the World as part of University Saturdays
April 2023
- April 19th - Stream with Igor Tsupko - ChatGPT/AutoGPT experiment
- April 14th - Talk at DataFusion Conference on Cloud Platform Tools for AI/ML Education
- April 8th - Roundtable Discussion on Using AI in Creative Industries at Non-Fiction Book Fair [also here]
- April 5th - Seminar Yandex DataSphere: from Theory to Practice at HSE Faculty of Computer Science
- April 2nd - Roundtable Truth of the Neural Network at Krasnokholmskaya Gallery, as part of Space of Messages: From Symbol to Feeling Exhibition (together with Polina Chernyshova and Angrey Getmanov, moderated by Stanislav Milovidov)
- April 1st - Talk at TechTrain 2023 entitled How AI Makes Your Dreams Come True [slides]
March 2023
- March 24th-31st - Taking part in True Tech Hack hackathon by MTS - delivering master-class on hackathon winning and judging
- March 25th - Talk on Generative AI at OpenDoors Day at MAI (with M.A.Pogosyan)
- March 20th - One-day workshop on Generative AI at MISIS ArtTech Masters Programme. Related blog post and materials
- March 1st - Talk on Magic of Generative AI as Scientific Seminar “Language Dynamics” as RUDN University. News report
February 2023
- February 27th - Podcast episode “Art of the Artificial” in
- February 6th - “Will AI Write Course Works and Essays” - interview in Russian Gazette, see blog post
January 2023
- January 18th - Seminar in Moscow City University (MGPU) on Usage of Creative AI in Education
- January 17th - Online Lecture AI Technologies in Science Art as part of ASTA Awards
December 2022
- December 28th - Master Class on Generative AI as part of Winter School for School 1514 Students
- December 10th - Open Lecture on Generative AI as part of Izotop Lab Project in Gilyarovsky Museum
November 2022
- November 9th - Roundtable How IT helps to reshape engineering education and fireside chat (together with Igor Agamirzyan) in YaCE Conference
- November 3-4 - DotNext Autumn, a talk How to Teach Programming (and not only it) to your kid, roundtable Problems of 0+ Education
October 2022
- October 30th - NFT Digital Art HSE Hack
- October 8th - TechTrain 2022, How Developer can become an Artist
September 2022
- September 17 - Moscow HSE Hack
- September 11 - Podcast on AI with Roman Dushkin
June 2022
- June 30th/July 1st - Technology Panel and Microsoft Demo Session at 2022 National Workshop on Data Science Education at UC Berkeley
January 2022
- January 30th - TechTogether Hackathon in Atlanta
December 2021
- December 14th - Roundtable Open Data for Museums in Russia [Presentation]
- December 11th - a talk on Generative Neural Art at Moscow Aviation Institute.
- December 10th - roundtable on Education at MY.TECH technological festival
November 2021
- November 20th - Create your own cognitive portrait in 60 minutes at DataArt IT-NonStop Conference
- November 18th - Azure Machine Learning: From Zero to Hero in 45 mins at DataArt IT-NonStop Conference
- November 10th - talk on Low Code/No Code tools at Moscow TechWeek
- November 9th - talk What Azure Machine Learning can do for Data Scientist: Using it to Explore COVID-19 Scientific Papers at NDR AI Conf by CodeCamp, Romania.
October 2021
- October 12th - talk on Azure ML and MLOps at Day of the Devs conference at Microsoft Russia
- October 9th - What you Always Wanted to Know about AI but were Afraid to Ask - Inspirational talk at Moscow Aviation Institute
- October 7th - How Machine Learning / AI can Support the Fight Againts COVID-19 at CrunchData Conference
- October 1st - Roundtable on Open Source tools in Universities at Russian Open Source Summit.
September 2021
- September 24th - How Machine Learning and AI Can Support the Fight Against COVID-19 at DevOps Stage conference
September 23rd - Introduction to Data Science talk at HSE Hackathon Club
- September 7th - Non-traditional usage of Cloud for Science Art talk at InfoBip Shift conference.
August 2021
- August 5th - Workshop at AI Summer School Singapore
July 2021
- July 15 - Jupyter Notebooks: An Ideal Way to Study Deep Learning with PyTorch on MS Learn in The Launch Space Show on Learn TV [Video]
- July 13 - PyTorch Fundamentals on Microsoft Learn at Ask the Expert show on Learn TV, together with Dr. Amir Pourabollah and Microsoft Student Ambassadors [Video]
June 2021
- June 24th - RaiffeisenBank .NET Community Meetup Using .NET and Cloud to Create Interactive Museum Exhibit with AI
- June 22nd - Microsoft Developer Meetup, Using Cloud for Intelligent COVID-19 Paper Analysis
- June 10th - Microsoft Student Ambassador talk: Generative Neural Models in Science Art
- June 9th - Plenary talk at DevTalks.ro - Why Cloud is Great for Developers
- June 4th - Internal Microsoft Python Meetup: How AI and Azure can Help Fight COVID-19
May 2021
- May 28th - Talk School Computer Science in 2030, at MMCO.Turing conference, part of 2021 Education Week.
- May 27th - How Machine Learning and AI Can Support the Fight Against COVID-19 - presented with Francesca Lazzeri at Data+AI Summit 2021 [Video]
- May 27th - How Cloud can fight a pandemic using Text Analytics and CosmosDB as part of Reactor HighEd Student Series
- May 26th - The art of artificial intelligence: creating images with Python and Azure - Presentation at Student Zone at Microsoft Build 2021
- May 26th - How Microsoft Cloud and Opensource Help Fighting the Pandemic - Presentation at Community Connections Zone at Microsoft Build 2021
- May 25th - Introduction to AI Talk at Summer School on Mathematical Modeling, MAI
- May 24th - Podcast on Education with Alexander Ryabinin and Maria Moiseeva (also Apple Podcast, Yandex Music, Google Podcast)
May 20th - Face Application Programming Interface & Creating Cognitive Portrait as part of Reactor HighEd Student Series
- May 13th - Two workshops as part of Advanced Computational Training for StatML Center for Doctoral Training at Imperial and Oxford
April 2021
- April 24th - Content Chair at Global AI Student Conference
- April 16th - Artificial Intelligence and Art: Can Computers be Creative (in Russian) as part of STEAM Week by Moscow City University
- April 13th - Build AI Solutions with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, Microsoft Education Webinar Series
- April 6th - HSE Computer Science Days, lecture Artificial Intelligence: should we use it, or be afraid
- April 5th - HSE Hackathon Club Meeting - talk on Using Azure Cloud to Win a Hackathon
March 2021
- March 29th - Cloud Builders Conference, Kyiv, Ukraine - How AI and Azure Cloud Can Help Fight COVID-19
- March 8th - On-Demand Sessions on SIGCSE 2021 Conference on Computer Science Education - Introduction to Microsoft Azure Cloud and Introduction to Azure Machine Learning
- March 19th - MS Stage Conference, keynote together with Alex Belotsekovsky: Microsoft Ecosystem Is The Best For Developers - And This is Why
- March 5th - Deep Pavlov Community Birthday Meetup, DeepPavlov отвечает на вопросы по COVID-19
February 2021
- February 26-28 - ML Prague - Mastermind Roundtable: Recent advancements in Speech and Language processing. How research is being applied in commercial projects today, talks Using Microsoft Text Analytics for Health to Mine COVID-19 Papers Dataset, Training Open Domain Question Answering model to Answer COVID Questions using Azure ML
- February 20th - Clubhouse talk Will Intelligent Teapots Take over the Internet, organized by Singularity University
- February 18th - talk at Baltic Microsoft Developer Community Meetup, Why Azure is cool for developers
- February 3rd - Azure ML Workshop at OpenTalks.ai conference
- February 2nd - Guest lecture at Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
December 2020
- December 18th - Expert Session at ARTIGIT’L Online Art Residency Accelerator
- December 12th - Hosting and Intro Talk (What is AI, and Why We Care) at Global AI Student Conference
November 2020
- November 25th - Guest lecture at ARTIGIT’L Online Art Residency Accelerator
- November 24th - URAIT roundtable on Open Education
- November 17th - AI Section at Mathematical Modelling Conference, Moscow Aviation Institute.
- November 11th - Talk at BuildStuff conference: Science Art in the Cloud: How I built a Museum Exhibit
- November 2, 9 - Radio “Mayak”, Program on VR Immersion and Heptic Feedback Controllers announced by Microsoft Research (part 1, part 2)
- November 2 - Workshop on Azure Machine Learning at MLConf.EU
October 2020
- October 30 - Expert session at ArtForum 2020 on AI and Art
- October 20 - Open Data Science Webinar BERT-based Open Domain Question Answering using DeepPavlov Library on Azure Machine Learning (together with Mikhail Burtsev)
- October 19 - Introduction to Cloud Computing talk at University of British Columbia Fall Cloud Training
- October 10 - Hackathon at MIET, Speaking and Mentoring
- October 6 - IT Podcast with Marina Efendieva (also on Spotify, Apple, Google)
- October 2 - Talks at PyCon India:
- Talk Functional Approach for Data Preparation in Deep Learning using mPyPl Library
- Tutorial: Creating Cognitive Portrait using Cognitive Services
September 2020
- September 29 - Introduction to Cloud Computing talk at UC Berkeley, part of Data Science Discovery Program
- September 29 - Cloud as AI Paradise keynote at InfoShare Conference, Poland.
- September 15 - Cognitive Portrait Master Class at PyConf++
- September 15 - Bar Counter Podcast