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Hi, I’m Ivan.

I’m a humanitarian-turned-techie, born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and currently undertaking a PhD in Edinburgh, Scotland. I care a lot about artificial intelligence and its impacts on the world, and I’m working on making these impacts beneficial.

In my spare time, I enjoy reading anything I can get my hands on (send me recommendations!), working on personal projects (send me ideas, too!), photography, and occasional pyrography and woodcarving. I read a lot, and I hope to make writing on this blog a regular exercise, because it helps me think.

My interests

• Artificial intelligence
• Machine learning
• Cognitive science
• Entrepreneurship
• Political theory
• Philosophy
• Economics
• Photography

I will probably write about all of these on this blog at one point or another.

Work

I am currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Edinburgh as part of the Center for Doctoral Training in NLP.

Research

Broadly speaking, I work on enabling human-like generalization in AI systems – I believe that the ability to learn from few-shot examples and broadly generalize out-of-domain not just to new inputs, but to new tasks and goals, is a fundamental prerequisite for general intelligence. Open to collaboration - if you are interested, please contact me.

Contact Me

I’m reachable on my Twitter/X, and you can also email me at <myfirstname> @ <thisdomain> with just about anything!