Data Scientist · Product Owner · CTO

Illya Tykhonov

I build machine learning products end-to-end: from research and model training to APIs, deployment, and team coordination. My background spans computer vision, NLP, analytics, and product delivery across startups, education, and enterprise projects.

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Profile

Short summary based on the current CV

Experienced ML engineer and technical leader with hands-on work in video analytics, retail AI, tabular ML, OCR, clustering, reinforcement learning, document automation, and production deployment. Combines research depth with practical execution across model development, APIs, infrastructure, stakeholder communication, and team management.

Experience

Selected roles

Product Owner
Polymatica, Softline
Dec 2023 – Jan 2026
Tbilisi, Georgia · Half-time
  • Audited, supported, and developed an existing ML solution for tabular analytics.
  • Worked with clients from presale to deployment.
  • Researched the market and shaped deep learning product improvement plans.
Chief Technical Officer
Neuro Metrix
Aug 2022 – Aug 2025
Batumi, Georgia · Full-time
  • Built full-cycle retail video analytics solutions: data collection, QA, training, deployment.
  • Created detection and tracking pipelines and an async recognition API based on Triton.
  • Led team management and technical interviews.
Chief Technical Officer
Neuro Wood
Feb 2022 – Aug 2022
Istanbul, Turkey · Part-time
  • Developed timber detection, breed classification, and depth estimation pipelines.
  • Delivered solutions for logging measurements automation.
  • Managed team workflows and technical hiring.
Data Scientist
Agroinvest Companies Group
Jul 2021 – Nov 2021
Moscow, Russia · Part-time
  • Identified effective equipment routes with reinforcement learning.
  • Built an OCR system for purchase automation.
  • Worked on NER, clustering, and classification for document automation.
Lecturer
Educational and Methodological Laboratory of Innovation, FPMI MIPT
Oct 2020 – Aug 2023
Moscow, Russia · Full-time
  • Designed materials and taught data analysis, machine learning, and deep learning.
  • Delivered 40 full courses for 2,000+ graduates across B2B and B2C audiences.
  • Worked with audiences including Sber, Gazprombank, and VK.
Data Scientist
Intellect LLC
Dec 2017 – Oct 2020
Moscow, Russia · Full-time
  • Worked on industrial forecasting, visualization, document topic modeling, and clustering.
  • Developed Kohonen-based unsupervised clustering approaches.
  • Generated training data for quadcopter control in simulation.

Skills

Core stack

Python NumPy Pandas Matplotlib OpenCV PyTorch Lightning spaCy NLTK Transformers Docker Triton Git Project Management Leadership Communication

Education

MIPT

PhD, Cybernetics & Radio Engineering
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
2020 – 2024 · Moscow, Russia
Master’s, Cybernetics & Radio Engineering
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
2018 – 2020 · Moscow, Russia
Bachelor’s, Cybernetics & Radio Engineering
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
2014 – 2018 · Moscow, Russia

Publications & Patents

Selected items from CV

  • Panoramic high-resolution video synthesis and object detection on panoramic video — IRASET, 2024.
  • Two ant-colony optimization approaches for route search in a sorting center — IRASET, 2024.
  • Adaptive tracking algorithm for real-time tasks — Neuroinformatics, 2022.
  • Knowledge extraction algorithm in technical vision systems for real-time tasks — Neuroinformatics, 2021.
  • Kazakhstan patent No. 39401 on gaze direction on a device screen with dynamic movement.
  • Russia patent No. 2019616027 on a committee of self-organizing neural networks.
  • Russia patent No. 2018663630 on a modular program of universal multilevel autonomous adaptive management.