Hi there, I’m Konstantin, a researcher and wannabe musician. I like using mathematics to make things work in practice, especially in deep learning applications. Previously I was a research scientist at Samsung AI Center in Cambridge, UK. Beside doing research, I serve as an Action Editor for TMLR, tweet about interesting papers, and give talks about my studies. In 2023, I was lucky to receive the Outsdanding Paper Award together with Aaron Defazio for our work on adaptive methods.
Before joining Samsung, I did a postdoc at Inria Sierra with Alexandre d’Aspremont and Francis Bach. I received my PhD from KAUST, where I worked under the supervision of Peter Richtárik on optimization theory and its applications in machine learning. In 2020, I also interned at Google Brain. I obtained my double degree MSc diploma from École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay and Paris-Dauphine, and a BSc from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
My interests and hobbies tend to change every couple of years or so. Recently, I finished 6 months of evening classes at The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance where I studied electronic music production using Ableton Live. I hope to release some music online in the future.
Feel free to shoot me an email if you want to chat in person about research or music, go to a museum, or maybe just take a walk in Paris!
PhD in Computer Science, 2021
KAUST
MSc in Data Science, 2017
École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay and Paris-Dauphine
BSc in Computer Science and Physics, 2016
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology