Mikhail Burtsev — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as a Landau AI Fellow at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences (LIMS).
Founded the DeepPavlov project in 2017, an open-source conversational AI framework with over 6,000 GitHub stars.
Previously served as Scientific Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (AIRI), leading over 120 researchers.
Leads the Neural Networks and Deep Learning Laboratory at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT).
Co-authored over 100 scientific papers in AI and machine learning, focusing on natural language processing, reinforcement learning, and conversational agents.
Proposed and co-organized academic Conversational AI Challenges at NIPS, NeurIPS, and EMNLP.

Biography

Mikhail Burtsev is a Landau AI Fellow at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences (LIMS), where he conducts research on the open-ended emergence of complex systems, modular representation for rapid learning, and large DNA language models. Prior to his current role, he was the Scientific Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (AIRI), one of the largest AI research organizations in the CIS, overseeing more than 120 researchers across over 20 projects.