Hi, I am Pavel.
I am currently exploring the intersection of applied AI, tools for scientific exploration, and industry.
Until Dec, 2025 I was the Head of Artificial Intelligence at Sumsub, a global verification company, where I oversaw the development of AI-based fraud preventing technologies, including deep fake detection and document intelligence. During my time there, we also established two academic collaborations, with Constructor University Bremen and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore).
From November 2020 to March 2022, I worked at Tinkoff Bank—one of the most technologically advanced digital banks in the world—as Director of AI. At Tinkoff, I was responsible for defining and driving the company’s AI strategy and managing the Tinkoff Center for AI Technologies. I resigned and emigrated to Germany after the war started.
Before, I was the the Head of Applied Research at VK.com (VKontakte), the largest European social network. The team aimed at advancing ML algorithms as well as bringing the latest technologies to VK. I was also responsible for newsfeed ranking and led the development and deploying VK speech recognition for voice messages and a set of technologies for reducing hate speech on the platform. yttm was also released at that time.
In October, 2019 I founded and then led VK AI Research Lab @ Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, a small lab mainly focused on NLP research.
My background is in software engineering. I graduated Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University with MS summa cum laude in Computer Science and spent more than 6 years working at Motorola across the globe. Specifically, I was a part of the team that developed au-Box and HD-STB set-top boxes.
I speak English, German, Japanese and Russian.
In my spare time I enjoy cycling, running and football.
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