Anton Okhotnikov

Anton Okhotnikov is an experienced machine learning professional currently serving as the Machine Learning Team Lead at ID R&D since November 2019, focusing on short-duration speaker verification, voice anti-spoofing for edge devices, and audio deepfake detection. Prior to this role, Anton worked as a Machine Learning Engineer specializing in voice biometrics, including speaker verification, identification, and diarization, and was involved in voice anti-spoofing. Anton also has academic experience as a Course Lead at Saint Petersburg State University, teaching courses in machine learning and data mining. Previous positions include a Machine Learning Developer at MTS AI, where work centered on speech recognition for a voice assistant, and a Junior Engineer at Concern CSRI Elektropribor, focusing on Kalman filtering and mathematical modeling. Anton holds a Master's degree in Data Science from the University of Southampton and a Bachelor's degree in Control Systems from ITMO University.