Aleksei Shkurin

Aleksei Shkurin, PhD, has a diverse work experience in various fields. Aleksei is currently working as a Tech Lead in AI Enablement at Invisible Technologies Inc. Since 2023. Prior to this, they were a Research Fellow at the University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management from July 2023 to November 2023. Aleksei also co-founded Playfair Technologies and served as the CTO from July 2022 to July 2023. Aleksei was a Founder-in-Residence at Entrepreneur First from September 2021 to June 2022. Before that, they worked as a Program Development Lead at STEM Fellowship from February 2019 to May 2021. Additionally, they worked as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Toronto from January 2016 to April 2021. Aleksei has also worked as a Data Scientist at FundRazr from June 2020 to January 2021. Aleksei served as the DCGSA President at the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research from May 2018 to June 2019. Earlier in their career, they worked as a Junior Researcher at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya from September 2015 to January 2016, where they developed a protein database curation tool and published peer-reviewed papers. Aleksei also worked as a Junior Researcher at the Geological Survey of Finland from May 2015 to August 2015.

Aleksei Shkurin, PhD obtained their Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Machine Learning from the University of Toronto between 2016 and 2022. Prior to that, they completed their Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering at Xamk - South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences from 2011 to 2016.