Data Science

Ivan Yamshchikov

Professor at THWS, co-founder and CPO of Pleias

Faculty Profile

Prof. Dr Ivan Yamshchikov worked as a data analyst at Yandex for six years, was an artificial intelligence evangelist at ABBYY for three years, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig for four years. Ivan is the author of a number of scientific publications presented at leading conferences in natural language processing. He founded the LEYA Laboratory for Natural Language Processing at the Higher School of Economics in St Petersburg.

He is currently a professor at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, where he leads the AI Institute CAIRO.THWS. Ivan is also a co-founder and CPO of the Paris-based Frontier AI Lab Pleias and an adviser to several start-ups.

Experience

Oct 2024 - Present
Head of AI Institute CAIRO
Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt(THWS)
Oct 2024 - Present
Co-founder and CPO
Pleias
Feb 2024 - Oct 2025
Co-founder and Cheif Scientific Officer
Pleias
Jun 2023 - Present
Professor
Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt(THWS)
Jun 2022 - Mar 2023
Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
2022 - Dec 2024
Head of ecosystem strategy
Toloka.AI
May 2022 - Present
Scientific Advisor
Docet TI
Sep 2021 - Present
Invited Associate Professor
ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management
Nov 2020 - Present
Strategy Director
SkillFactory
Mar 2021 - 2022
Advisor
Begin Capital
Feb 2017 - Present
Co-Founder
Creaited Labs
Jan 2021 - Jul 2022
Head of LEYA Laboratory for Natural Language Processing
Yandex
Jan 2021 - Jul 2022
Associate Professor
Higher School of Economics
Feb 2017 - Mar 2021
Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Feb 2018 - Nov 2020
AI-evangelist
ABBYY
Jul 2016 - Feb 2017
Manager for AI and RnD projects
Yandex
Nov 2013 - Oct 2016
Senior Analyst, Head of New Products Research Group
Yandex
Sep 2012 - Nov 2013
Senior Analyst
Yandex
Jul 2011 - Sep 2012
Analyst
Yandex
Feb 2013 - Jun 2016
Multi-ITN STRIKE - Novel Methods in Computational Finance Fellow
University of Applied Sciences Zittau-Goerlitz
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Teacher
Akademicheskaya Gimnaziya StPSU
Sep 2005 - Nov 2008
TV-presenter
5th Channel, Petersburg

Courses by Ivan

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