PhD, Associate Professor of Algorithms and Programming Technology at MIPT, head of the Yandex Faculty of Computer Science at HSE.

Teaches the courses "Algorithms and data structures" and "Algorithms in external memory" at the Yandex School of Data Analysis. Creator of the Big Data Infrastructure academic program. 
 
Candidate of Sciences (PhD) in Mathematical Logic, Algebra and Number Theory, Associate Professor of Algorithms and Programming Technology at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and head of the Yandex Faculty of Computer Science at the Higher School of Economics National Research University. Leads development of the YT platform for distributed computing and data processing at Yandex.
 
A long-standing organizer of computer science competitions for youth and students. Adept at explaining the most complex subject matter in clear and simple terms.

Maxim Babenko

PhD, Professor of the Department of Higher Algebra at the MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, CEO of Yandex in Russia.

Conducts several lectures in the linear algebra course at the Yandex School of Data Analysis.
 
PhD, Professor of the Department of Higher Algebra at the MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Director of the Yandex School of Data Analysis, CEO of Yandex in Russia.
 
Has published more than 50 articles on elementary properties of algebraic structures, the structure of Chevalley groups, and other issues of algebra and mathematical logic

Elena Bunina

PhD, Associate Professor at Skoltech, Associate Professor and Head of the Data Analysis and Predictive Modeling Lab at IITP RAS.

Teaches the course "Applications of mathematical statistics in machine learning" at the Yandex School of Data Analysis.
Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (PhD), Associate Professor at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Associate Professor and Head of the Data Analysis and Predictive Modeling Lab at the Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences. Uses statistical methods and data analysis to solve applied engineering problems in commercial aviation and the automotive industry. 
 
His favorite topics are Gaussian process regression, confidence sets, generative neural networks, anomaly detection, and prediction of rare events. Interested in deep learning for 3D and 4D data processing in computer graphics, navigation using visual information, and reinforcement learning.

Evgeny Burnaev

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PhD, Associate Professor and Head of the Graphics and Media Lab at the MSU Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics. Head of the program "Applied mathematics and computer science" in the HSE Computer Science Faculty.

Lecturer of the "Image and video analysis" course at the Yandex School of Data Analysis. 
 
Candidate of Sciences (PhD), Associate Professor of the MSU Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Head of the Graphics and Media Lab. Head of the Bachelor's program "Applied mathematics and computer science" in the HSE Computer Science Faculty.
 
Focuses on computer vision and primarily on video analytics (recognition of people on video and analysis of their behavior). Participates in organizing the annual GraphiCon conference.

Anton Konushin

PhD, Associate Professor and Head of the Skoltech Computer Vision Group.

Teaches the "Deep learning" course at the Yandex School of Data Analysis.
 
PhD, Associate Professor and Head of the Computer Vision Group at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology. Has worked as a researcher at Yandex, Oxford University, and Microsoft Research. 
 
Works on problems of image recognition, deep generative models, and analysis of biomedical images. Program committee member of the most renowned conferences and publications on computer vision: ICCV, CVPR, ECCV, NIPS, TPAMI, IJCV.

Viktor Lempitsky

Doctor of Science in Biology, PhD, chief researcher of ICS RAS.

Leads the course "Recovery of functional laws from empirical evidence" at the Yandex School of Data Analysis. 
 
Doctor of Biological Sciences, Candidate of Technical Sciences (PhD), Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of Control Sciences. 
 
Research interests: analysis of biological and medical data using machine learning, methods for risk assessment of morbidity and mortality given incomplete data and the lack of mathematical models of the patterns of aging of living organisms. The research results are used in medicine, biology, and demography. 

Anatoly Mikhalsky

Professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Research Director of Yandex School of Data Analysis, Director of the Department of Data Analysis.

Research Director of Yandex School of Data Analysis and Director of the Department of Data Analysis.
 
Professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey. His first work on image recognition was published in 1964, when he first proposed using integral kernels for building adaptive nonlinear classifiers. Subsequently, they became one of the main elements of all modern machine learning methods.

Currently, he is developing special methods of combinatorial optimization for the problems of cluster analysis, and uses them to solve practical problems of signal and image analysis. Has published eight monographs and 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He received 11 patents for the use of the developed methods in bioinformatics, medical diagnostics, individual planning of cancer treatment, practical agricultural epidemiology, regional sociogeography, and financial risk forecasting systems. Since 1967, 12 Doctors of Science have defended their dissertations under his leadership.

Ilya Muchnik

PhD, Federal Professor of Mathematics, Director of the MIPT Faculty of Applied Mathematics & Computing Sciences, Head of the MIPT-Sberbank R&D Laboratory, Head of the Department of Discrete Mathematics in the Faculty of Innovation and High Technology.

Teaches the course "Sampling analysis and probability theory" at the Yandex School of Data Analysis.
 
PhD, Federal Professor of Mathematics. Director of the Phystech School of Applied Mathematics and Computing Sciences at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Chief Researcher and Head of the Advanced Combinatorics and Network Applications Lab, Head of the MIPT-Sberbank R&D Laboratory, Head of the Department of Discrete Mathematics in the Faculty of Innovation and High Technology, head of joint research programs with MIPT at Yandex.
 
Staff member of the Department of Mathematical Statistics and Random Processes, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University. Reads an annual course of lectures on combinatorics at the Moscow State University Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics and teaches in the joint bachelor's degree program of the New Economic School and the Higher School of Economics. 
 
Editor-in-chief of the Moscow Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory. Winner of the President's Prize in Science and Innovation for Young Scientists for 2011. Active popularizer of science and author of several general-audience science books.

Andrey Raigorodsky

PhD, RAS member, Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Probability Theory in the MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Senior Researcher at the Steklov Mathematical Institute.

At the Yandex School of Data Analysis, he lectures on "Fundamentals of stochastics.
 
PhD, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Probability Theory in the Moscow State University Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Senior Researcher at the Steklov Mathematical Institute. 
 
Works on a broad range of questions of general probability theory and mathematical statistics. Author of 10 monographs, eight textbooks and more than 280 scientific articles. Educated 57 Candidates and 30 Doctors of Science.  A student of Andrey Kolmogorov, he is the editor and compiler of two volumes of Selected Works and other publications dedicated to the outstanding mathematician. 

Albert Shiryaev

PhD, Head of the MIPT Machine Intelligence Laboratory, Professor of the Yandex Faculty of Computer Science at HSE. Creator of MachineLearning.ru. 

Graduate of Oxford University, PhD at the University of Edinburgh, Head of the Machine Translation Division at Yandex.

Teaches a course in Natural Language Processing at the Yandex School of Data Analysis.
 
Graduate of Oxford University, PhD at the University of Edinburgh, Head of the Machine Translation Division at Yandex. Before joining Yandex, for 5 years he was a researcher at Google working on the Google Translate project, and led the group developing technologies for natural language generation.
 
Started programming on an old-fashioned Acorn Electron, switched to philology in his student years, then returned to computer science and computational linguistics as a postgraduate.  For five years he worked for Google Translate, applying randomized algorithms for language modelling. He also developed language processing methods for languages with dramatic differences in syntax and morphology. Later he switched to natural language processing for Google Search. 

David Talbot

Teaches the "Machine learning" course at the Yandex School of Data Analysis.
 
PhD, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the MIPT Machine Intelligence Laboratory,  senior researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Computing Center, Professor of Intelligent Systems at the MIPT Department of Control/Management and Applied Mathematics, Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Methods of Forecasting at MSU Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics.
 
One of the leading Russian experts in the field of data analysis. Author of the course "Introduction to machine learning" on Coursera. One of the creators and administrators of the site MachineLearning.ru. 

Konstantin Vorontsov

PhD, Professor of the Mathematical Logic Department in the MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Theoretical Computer Science in the HSE Faculty of Computer Science. 

Teaches the courses "Computational complexity" and "Information theory" at the Yandex School of Data Analysis. 
 
PhD, Professor of the Mathematical Logic and Theory of Algorithms Department of the Moscow State University Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Theoretical Computer Science in the Computer Science Faculty at the Higher School of Economics. 
 
His work is focused on information theory, Kolmogorov complexity, and computational complexity. Member of the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science and President of the Russian branch. Member of the European Academy.

Nikolay Vereshchagin

PhD, Research Professor of the Department of Big Data and Information Search in the HSE Computer Science Faculty, Head of the Samsung-HSE Laboratory.

At the Yandex School of Data Analysis, he reads a course of his own design on Bayesian machine learning methods, and a mini-course on neuro-Bayesian models.
 
Candidate of Sciences (PhD), Research Professor of the Department of Big Data and Information Search in the HSE Computer Science Faculty, Head of the Deep Learning and Bayesian Methods Center of the Samsung-HSE Laboratory, which he also heads. 
 
Interested in developing new probabilistic models for processing large datasets, especially with hidden variables. Likes to turn lectures into an ongoing dialogue with students.

Dmitry Vetrov

Elena (Lena) Voita is a Ph.D. student at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Amsterdam, and a Facebook PhD Fellow in Natural Language Processing. 

Elena (Lena) Voita is a Ph.D. student at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Amsterdam, and a Facebook PhD Fellow in Natural Language Processing. 
Lena’s research focuses on neural machine translation, as well as analysis and interpretability of deep NLP models. Her works were published at top-tier NLP conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS. She is also a program committee member of the most renowned conferences in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (ACL, EMNLP, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR) and an outstanding reviewer at EMNLP 2019.
Previously, Lena worked at Yandex for 4 years: first at the core of Yandex Search, then as a research scientist at Yandex Research side by side with the Yandex Translate team. In addition to her own research, she also supervised Bachelor and Master students (Yandex interns and students in the scope of Yandex Academic Supervision Program), which resulted in publications at ACL and NeurIPS.