About
I am a computational linguist and LLM R&D engineer. My research background is in mathematical and computational linguistics, particularly Minimum Description Length, formal grammars, and computational morphology and syntax. More recently, my work has focused on LLM evaluation, prompt optimization, and applied generative AI.
I received my Ph.D. in 2021 from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. My dissertation, titled Learning Syntax via Decomposition, can be found here. In 2015, I graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with a Specialist degree (≈B.A.+M.A.) in linguistics. During my undergraduate career, I participated in a number of linguistic expeditions, acquiring fieldwork experience in Uralic and Altaic languages.
I also built a small LLM-driven text game inspired by coffee-break roguelikes and tabletop RPGs. You can try it here: [play on Discord in English] [play on Telegram in Russian]