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Resume

About
20 years of programming experience at IBM, Samsung, and Huawei. 9 years of
expertise in Computer Science Research, coupled with 6 years in Deep Learning.
Led research teams for 5 years with up to 6 members. MSU graduate and Rus-
sian Academy of Science postgraduate in Applied Mathematics. Finished 15 ML
research projects. Author of SOTA in portrait matting.

Work experience

Head of AI 2023 - Now


Gradient, Persona mobile apps
Sergei Chicherin TicketToTheMoon
Computer Vision, AI, Engineering
Developed Generative AI models, including face-editing filters, for applications
 Image and Video Generation with a multimillion-user base. Conducted up to 10 experiments per day with new
data and settings. Improve internal conversion rates of features, contributing to
 Applied AI
the app’s threefold growth.
 Cloud Computing
 Neural Networks to Devices
Head of NPU optimization 2021 - 2022
Web Services and Software Archi- Smart Displays

tecture SaluteDevices

Led the creation of a generative model for portrait matting.


Contact Performed neural architecture search for the fastest computer vision models on
target devices with NPU.
Planned the research direction for computer vision group.
R [email protected]

Æ +995 (511) 190-876


Lead CV Engineer 2018 - 2021
github.com/chroneus Artificial Intelligence Center
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Samsung Research
™ Georgia Computer Vision R&D in Telepresence Lab.
Image Inpainting, 3D Retargeting for VR.
Blind Image QA, collecting custom dataset.
Previous Roles Network conversion and mobile demo of neural avatars(talking MonaLisa) for
most discussed science article in 2019 by social media metrics .

Team Lead 7+ yrs.


Chief Science Officer 2018 - 2019
AI Startup
CV Engineer 5+ yrs. Skychain Global

Led a team of 6 ML Engineers in creating a docker cloud-based platform for


medical diagnostics which separates patient data and algorithms for analysis.
Research Scientist 4+ yrs.
Investigating SOTA methods for classification and segmentation in cancer tumor
images.
Software Engineer 10+ yrs. Created brain tumor image visualization and worked with pathologists resulting
in a new cancer tumor dataset and methods for differential diagnosis.

Software Architect 2+ yrs. Research Scientist 2017 - 2018


Noah Arc Laboratory
Huawei

Worked on image enhancement projects, including denoising and super resolution


for Huawei mobile phones.
Demonstrated real-time video super resolution at Huawei CVPR stand.
Contributing to achieving the best phone camera according to dxomark.com
in 2017 and first AI zoom working on NPU on Huawei P20 Pro (Outstanding
achievement award).

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Education Team Leader 2006 - 2015


RSTL/Watson Research
IBM
2004 - 2006 Led the Galapagos system discovery project, a toolset for obtaining and analyzing
Center for Theoretical Problems major middleware information from large data centers (>1000 servers), based
of Physicochemical Pharmacol- on theoretical works on static code analysis and system discovery. The impactful
ogy example of usage was the Equator project, migration infrastructure on zLinux
Russian Academy of Science with a budget of $1B.
Computer Science • Biophysics Worked on the Apache project for SoftLayer Orchestration as a Service.
Research thesis: “Mathematical Provided several machine learning demos, using classification, topic modeling,
model of blood coagulation“. LDA, and Alchemy API.
Created and assistant several big web portals solution based on IBM technologies.

1998 - 2003 Consultant|Architect 2015-2017,2023


several companies and startups
Department of Mathematics
Moscow State University I worked with companies/educational institutes on building web portals, applying
NLP and ML tasks, making YC demo app, creating in-house software etc.
Master’s thesis on applying some
facts from group representation
theory to graphs.

Frameworks and Languages


1996 - 1998
• Autograd: PyTorch - mastered and contributed to. TensorFlow, JAX, Caffe.
Kolmogorov School
• Mobile Inference: CoreML, TFLite, PyTorch Mobile, SNPE, HiAI, Khadas.
Winner of Moscow physics
olympiad. • Web: Flask, Spring MVC, Struts, IBM WS, Apache stack.
• Languages: Python(Fluent in), Java(Sun and IBM Certified), Julia, JS and bash.
• A hundred libraries on CV and NLP and general ML (here are keywords - numpy,
openCV, pandas, timm, Apache stack, transformers, diffusers).

Interests Selected Publications


 Running (marathons and trails)
• Sergej Chicherin, Karen Efremyan Adversarially-Guided Portrait Matting
 Board games (chess and go)
• Sergej Chicherin, Nikolai A. Joukov, Birgit Pfitzmann, Marco Pistoia, Vasily Tarasov,
 Hiking (Kilimanjaro and Elbrus)
Takaaki Tateishi, Norbert G. Vogl Method and system to discover possible program
variable values by connecting program value extraction with external data sources.
US Patent http://www.google.com/patents/US8561035
• Nikolai Joukov, Vasily Tarasov, Birgit Pfitzmann, Sergej Chicherin, Marco Pistoia
and Takaaki Tateishi. Discovery of Hard-coded External Dependencies in Enterprise
Production Environments. 12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated
Network Management (IM 2011), Dublin, Ireland, May 2011.

Teaching Experience
• NTR seminar on Mobile Inference https://ict2go.ru/events/22040/ 2020
• Crash course for engineer team on deep learning 2019
• Lecture on Image Generation for broad(>500 persons) audience in science festival,
2017
• Prepared and taught courses on IBM technologies in Moscow Institute of Transport
in 2005

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