Jobs:

• Yandex 2x: Worked on DeepHD and Meteum
• Samsung AI Center: Researched multi-view human pose estimation and neural avatars

Education:

• Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT): BS + MS
• Yandex School of Data Analysis (YSDA)
• Skoltech PhD: dropout

Research:

• Google Scholar: 800+ citations, 6 h-index
• Learnable triangulation of human pose (ICCV 2019, demo)
• Textured neural avatars (CVPR 2019)

Contests:

• Telegram MiniApp Contest 2023
  🏅 gold medal, 180+ participants (project, demo)
• Junction Hackathon 2017
  🏅 1st place, 300+ teams (project)
• BCG Idea Challenge 2015
  🏅 1st place, 200+ participants

Content with me:

• How to Create Crazy Products (podcast, 2025)
• The Entrepreneur's Path (interview, 2024)
• New Unreality: Karim Iskakov, Deepfakes, AI (podcast, 2021)
• 📰 The Flow: "The First Rap Deepfake Video for Lil Uzi Vert" (article, 2020)
• Why do you need YSDA? (interview, 2019)
• Video blog about studying in MIPT (2016)

Fun:

• Built BalanceBall while studying at university
• Made CG for Lil Uzi Vert - Wassup (6M+ views)
• Elon Musk joined our Zoom call (300K+ views)
• My question on "What? Where? When?" TV show lol