Resume
🎓 Education
PhD in Computer Science
Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems of NAS RA
📅 2020–2024 | Adviser: A. S. Dalalyan
📜 Thesis: “Statistical and Computational Complexity of the Feature Matching Map Detection Problem”
Master of Science in Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Informatics
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Applied Mathematics
Yerevan State University
📅 2014–2020 | 🏅 GPA: 19/20 (Both Degrees)
Physical and Mathematical Specialized School
📅 Graduated 2014 | 🥇 Valedictorian (Top of 140 students) | GPA: 9/10
💼 Professional Experience
YerevanN Research Lab
🧠 Machine Learning Researcher | 📅 July 2016 – Present
📍 Yerevan, Armenia
- Led Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation for UAVs project using multimodal models (LLaVA, Qwen)
- Developed statistical methods for feature matching map recovery ( Paper / Code )
- Pioneered work on domain generalization failures (Code)
- Built BioreIEx biological relation extraction system (ACL Paper)
- Created LSTM-based transliteration models (Blog)
American University of Armenia
👨🏫 Adjunct Professor | 📅 Sep–Dec 2021
- Taught DS115 Data Structures/Algorithms to 130 students
- Adapted Stanford’s CS 161 curriculum for Python-based competitive programming
Internships
X, the Moonshot Factory
🤖 Software Engineering Intern | 📅 Jun–Aug 2019 | 🇩🇪 Munich
- Bridged simulation-to-reality gaps for The Everyday Robot project
Google NYC
📹 Software Engineering Intern | 📅 Aug–Oct 2018 | 🇺🇸 New York
- Improved YouTube captioning with contextual biassing
- Designed named entity transcription evaluation metrics
Google Switzerland
✍️ Research Intern | 📅 Jul–Sep 2017 | 🇨🇭 Zurich
- Enhanced handwriting recognition via adversarial training
🏆 Honors & Awards
🥉 Bronze Medal, International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI 2014)
🥉 Bronze Medal, Zhautikov Olympiad in Informatics (2014)
🏅 Finalist, Google Hashcode (2017, 2018)
🛠 Skills
💻 Programming
- Python (NumPy, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Scikit-learn)
- Machine Learning Pipelines, LLM Fine-tuning
- Competitive Programming (Codeforces, HackerRank)
🧠 ML Specializations
- Domain Generalization & Invariant Learning
- Multimodal Models
🌐 Languages
- Armenian (Native)
- English, Russian (Fluent)