Education
M.S., Computer Science
September 2018University of Tartu, Estonia
- Thesis: Replicating DeepMind StarCraft II RL Benchmark with Actor-Critic Methods
B.S., Mathematical Statistics
September 2014 - July 2018University of Tartu, Estonia
Employment
Research Engineer
March 2020DeepMind, London, UK
Research Engineer Intern
June 2019 - September 2019DeepMind, London, UK
- Contributed to AlphaStar's league system development and launch on the Battle.net
- Created proof-of-concept ML framework in JAX, showcased with CV and NLP models
Research Assistant
February 2018 - February 2020Comput. Neuroscience Research Group
- Assisted with research and engineering in the domain of deep reinforcement learning
Research Assistant
June 2018 - December 2018PerkinElmer
- Improved instance segmentation pipeline in fluorescent medical imaging
Senior Web Developer
September 2011 - February 2015KNP Labs
- Developed and suppored complex web based applications (banking, education, retail)
- Coached junior developers with hands-on workshops, pair programming sessions, PR reviews
Web Developer
September 2010 - September 2011Attitude OÜ
- Developed and supported web based applications
Skills
Expert in
- Python, PHP, JavaScript
- Keras, Symfony, Doctrine, Angular
- git
Proficient in
- C++, R, Java, HTML, CSS
- Tensorflow, PyTorch, NumPy, SciPy
- AWS
Experience in
- Bash, MATLAB, SAS, LaTeX
- Caffe, Theano, OpenCV
- vim
Open Source
- Symfony Web Framework, Doctrine ORM (contributor)
- TensorFlow, PySC2, SciPy, StatsModels (minor contributor)
- Reaver: SC2 DRL Agent, CSB AI Starter, Mailjet PHP API (creator)
Talks
- Reinforcement Learning (Guest Lecture, University of Tartu) - December 2018
- Deep Reinforcement Learning (DevClub, Tallinn) - June 2018
- Behavior Driven Development with Behat and Mink (DevClub, Tallinn) - January 2013
Teaching
- Neural Networks, TA (University of Tartu) - Spring 2019
- Deep Reinforcement Learning, TA (University of Tartu) - Autumn 2018
Competitions
- Kaggle 2018 Data Science Bowl (277/3634, team) - April 2018
- Codingame AI Contest Coders of the Caribbean (28/3623) - April 2017
- Hackerrank University World Cup (22/4466, team) - September 2015
- IEEEXtreme 8.0 (208/1853, team) - September 2014
Awards
- Estonian National Contest for University Students, B.S. programme, 2nd prize - December 2018
- DevClub Best Talk Award - December 2018
- Cybernetica AS Master's Fellowship - October 2018
Relevant Coursework
Information Theory, Stochastic Processes, Matrix Calculus, Monte-Carlo Methods, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Data Analysis I-II, Numerical Analysis, Mathematical Analysis I-III, Probability Theory & Statistics I-II, Algebra (Abstract & Linear)
Online: Machine Learning (Stanford CS229), CNNs for Visual Recognition (Stanford CS231n), Deep Learning for NLP (Stanford CS224d), Intro to AI (Berkeley CS188), DRL Bootcamp (Berkeley), Reinforcement Learning (UCL), Deep Reinforcement Learning (Berkeley CS294)