Hi everyone! I’m Mikhail and I’m an Applied Scientist who enjoys bringing novel and experimental ideas to life via software development. I am generally interested in machine learning and its application in domains like computer vision, language processing, autonomous vehicles/robots, and recommender systems.

Currently, I’m an Applied Scientist at Microsoft working on LLM based modeling and evaluation problems within advertising. Previously, I was an Applied Scientist at Cruise (acquired by GM) working on validating the safety of perception systems running onboard our autonomous vehicle. Prior to that, I was an Applied Scientist at Microsoft working on code recommendation (since deprecated with the rise of LLMs).

Before entering industry, I earned my PhD from the Computer Science Department of Boston University, where I was a member of the Image and Video Computing group advised by Dr. Margrit Betke. During my PhD, I specialized in Computer Vision and Machine Learning with a particular focus on 2D & 3D pose estimation of flying animals.

I also earned my B.S. & M.S. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. During my masters I was a member of the Multidimensional Image Processing Lab advised by Dr. William Higgins.

My past research work (and patents) can be viewed on Google Scholar.

When I’m not working I enjoy spending time with my family and exploring the outdoors through hiking.

Contact

I can be reached at first dot last at gmail dot com (all lowercase).