Artem Rodichev

Artem Rodichev has a diverse work experience in the field of software development and engineering. Artem is currently the Founder and CEO of Ex-human, a position they have held since May 2021. Prior to this, Artem worked at Replika as the Head of AI from February 2017 to May 2021, where they successfully built the most popular English-speaking chatbot and developed the core conversational AI stack, which attracted 10 million users in the U.S.

Before their role at Replika, Artem worked at Luka as a Machine Learning Engineer from September 2014 to February 2017. In this role, they designed and built dialog models based on deep learning algorithms and developed various machine learning services, including sentiment analysis, text clustering, paraphrase detection, topic modeling, and image recognition. Artem was also responsible for back-end development and DevOps.

Prior to Luka, Artem worked at Yandex as a Software Engineer from February 2013 to September 2014. Here, they contributed to the development of Yandex Blogs Search functionality and built high-load, scalable, and fault-tolerant applications across multiple data centers. Artem also developed services for web search pipeline, including crawling, data processing, indexing, ML features computation, and document ranking.

Artem began their career at ABBYY as a Software Developer from July 2011 to November 2012, where they designed applications for processing multilingual dictionaries and developed a natural language conversion engine. Artem also worked as a Software Engineering Intern at Mail.Ru from February 2012 to April 2012, where they developed a prototype of a behavioral targeting system for their advertising network and designed and implemented a user interests identification service.

In addition, Artem gained experience as a Junior Software Developer at ISPRAS (Russian Academy of Sciences) from September 2010 to June 2011, where they worked on improving compiler optimizations algorithms and developed new functionality for the GCC compiler for ARM processor architecture.

Overall, Artem Rodichev has demonstrated their expertise in AI, machine learning, software development, and engineering throughout their career, as well as their ability to lead and innovate as a founder and CEO.

Artem Rodichev obtained their Master's degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) in the years 2009 to 2014. Additionally, they pursued further education at the Yandex School of Data Analysis from 2011 to 2013, where they earned a Master's degree in Computer Science with a specialization in Machine Learning.

In terms of additional certifications, Artem Rodichev completed a course called "Software Processes and Agile Practices" and received a certificate from Coursera Course Certificates in November 2015.