Resume

About
MSU graduate, Applied Mathematics, 2003. Has 20+ years of programming expe-
rience, 9+ years Data Science and Research Experience, 6 years experience in deep
learning, 5+ years of Team Leadership of Research team (6+ ppl). Experience:
IBM ,Samsung, Huawei, Luxxotica. Finished 15+ ML research projects.

Work experience

Head of NPU optimization 08/2021 - Now

Smart Displays
Sergei Chicherin SaluteDevices
Computer Vision, AI, Engineering Led the creation of a SOTA model for portrait matting as of March 2023.
Performed neural architecture search for the fastest computer vision models on
Image Generation, Enhancement
 target devices with NPU.
and Matting
Conducted research direction for computer vision research group.
 Applied AI
 Cloud Computing
Lead CV Engineer 05/2018 - 05/2021
 Neural Networks to Mobile Artificial Intelligence Center
Web Services and Software Archi- Samsung Research

tecture
Computer Vision R&D in Telepresense Lab.
Image Inpainting, 3D Retargeting for VR.
Blind Image QA, collecting custom dataset.
Contact Network conversion and mobile demo of neural avatars(talking MonaLisa) for
most discussed science article in 2019 .
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Chief Science Officer 2018 - 2019
Æ +7 (903) 799-8601 AI Startup
Skychain Global
‡ github.com/chroneus
Led a team of 6 ML Engineers in creating a docker cloud-based platform for
™ https://sergejchicherin.com medical diagnostic which separates patient data and algorithms for analysis.
Investigating SOTA methods for classification and segmentation in cancer tumor
images.
Created brain tumor image visualization and worked with pathologists resulting
Previous Roles in a new cancer tumor dataset and methods for differential diagnosis.

Research Scientist 5+ yrs. Research Scientist 2017 - 2018

Noah Arc Laboratory
Huawei
Team Lead 5+ yrs.
Worked on image enhancement projects, including denoising and super resolution
for Huawei mobile phones.
CV Engineer 5+ yrs. Demonstrated real-time video super resolution at Huawei CVPR stand.
Contributing to achieving the best phone camera according to dxomark.com
in 2017 and first AI zoom working on NPU on Huawei P20 Pro (Outstanding
Software Engineer 10+ yrs. achievement award).

Software Architect 1+ yrs.

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Education Team Leader 2006 - 2015

RSTL/Watson Research
IBM
2004 - 2006 Led the Galapagos system discovery project, a toolset for obtaining and analyzing
Center for Theoretical Problems major middleware information from large data centers (>1000 servers), based
of Physicochemical Pharmacol- on theoretical works on static code analysis and system discovery. Big example
ogy - Equator project, migration infrastructure on zLinux with a budget of $1B.
Russian Academy of Science Worked on the Apache project for SoftLayer Orchestration as a Service.
Computer Science • Biophysics Provided several machine learning demos, using classification, topic modeling,
Research thesis: „Mathematical LDA, and Alchemy API.
model of blood coagulation“. Created and assistant several big web portals solution based on IBM technologies.

Architect|Consultant 2003-2006, 2015-2017

1998 - 2003 several companies and startups

Department of Mathematics I worked with companies/educational institutes on building web portals, applying
Moscow State University NLP and ML tasks, making YC demo app, creating in-house software etc.
Master’s thesis: „Applying some
facts from group representation
theory to graphs“.
Frameworks and Languages

1996 - 1998 • Autograd: PyTorch - mastered and contributed to. TensorFlow, JAX, Caffe.
Kolmogorov School • Mobile Inference: TFLite, PyTorch Mobile, CoreML, SNPE, HiAI, Khadas.
Winner of Moscow physics • Web: Flask, Spring MVC, Struts, IBM WS, Apache stack.
olympiad.
• Languages: Python(Fluent in), Java(Sun and IBM Certified), Julia, JS and bash.
• A hundred libraries on CV and NLP and general ML (ok, here is keywords - numpy,
openCV, pandas, timm, Apache stack, transformers).

Interests Selected Publications

 Running (marathons and trails)
• Sergej Chicherin, Karen Efremyan Adversarially-Guided Portrait Matting
 Board games (chess and go)
• Sergej Chicherin, Nikolai A. Joukov, Birgit Pfitzmann, Marco Pistoia, Vasily Tarasov,
 Hiking (Kilimanjaro and Elbrus)
Takaaki Tateishi, Norbert G. Vogl Method and system to discover possible program
variable values by connecting program value extraction with external data sources.
US Patent http://www.google.com/patents/US8561035
• Nikolai Joukov, Vasily Tarasov, Birgit Pfitzmann, Sergej Chicherin, Marco Pistoia
and Takaaki Tateishi. Discovery of Hard-coded External Dependencies in Enterprise
Production Environments. 12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated
Network Management (IM 2011), Dublin, Ireland, May 2011.

Teaching Experience

• NTR seminar on Mobile Inference https://ict2go.ru/events/22040/ 2020

• Crush course for engineer team on deep learning 2019
• Lecture on Image Generation for broad(>500 persons) audience in science festival,
2017
• Prepared and taught courses on IBM technologies in MIIT in 2005