Nikita Kapchenko

Doctoral Student

About me

I am Nikita Kapachenko, a first year doctoral student at the Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology, Sofia University from October 2022. I am supervised by Prof. Dragomir Radev (Yale University) and Dr. Kristina Toutanova (Google).

My research spans computer vision, reinforcement learning, NLP and multimodality.

Education

Mathematics, Vision and Learning, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris 2021

Applied Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris 2015-2017

Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Taras Shevchenko University, Kiev 2011-2015 (Top 5%)

Awards

Jacques Hadamard FMJH scholarship (France 2017)

Sophie German scholarship (France 2015)

3rd place at Putnam Mathematical Competition (Kiev 2012)

Relevant Work Experience

Ecole Normale Superieure, 04/2022 – 10/2022

Research intern

Variational autoencoder interpolation

Murex.com, France, 11/2018-08/2021

Quantitative Research

Stochastic models development, differential machine learning

Societe Generale, France, 05/2017-10/2018

Quantitative Research intern

Local stochastic volatility calibration