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bio:
  name: Konstantin Chernyshev
  informal: Konstantin
  email: kdchernyshev+job@gmail.com
  location: Berlin, Germany
  linkedin: linkedin.com/in/kdchernyshev
  linkedin_name: kdchernyshev
  github: github.com/k4black
  github_name: k4black
  website: k4black.github.io
  hireable: false

summary:
  tagline: NLP Research Engineer — LLMs, Evaluation \& Multi-Agentic Systems
  short: Research Engineer with 6+ years in LLM, Evaluation, XAI and Agentic systems;
  long:
    - 6+ years in LLM evaluation, agentic pipelines and model compression at Toloka AI, JetBrains and EPAM;
    - "Honors MSc @ Erasmus Mundus LCT (thesis: Mechanistic Interpretability for LLM pruning); Honors BSc @ HSE;"
    - ACL publications on LLM evaluation and multi-task learning; 15+ ML projects.
  github_profile: |
    - 💻 Interested in NLP: Agents, Interpretability, Pruning and Human-AI collaboration;
    - 💼 NLP Researcher at [Toloka AI](https://toloka.ai/), former NLP at [EPAM Systems](https://www.epam.com/), and Research Intern at [JetBrains Research](https://www.jetbrains.com/research/);
    - 📄 Erasmus Mundus **['Language & Communication Technologies'](https://lct-master.org/)** at the University of Groningen and Saarland University;
    - 👨‍🏫 Ex. Lecturer and Python Course manager at the [Yandex School of Data Analysis](https://academy.yandex.com/dataschool/);
    - 📝 More: [CV file](https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/k4black/k4black/main/chernyshev_cv.pdf) or [linkedin.com/in/kdchernyshev](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kdchernyshev/) or mail me 😊.

personal:
  tags: [Music Production, Juggling, Slackline]
  summary: Cheerful and sociable person, keen on slackline and juggling, love music making.

skills:
  - group: LLM \& Training
    tags:
      - name: Evaluation
        level: 3
      - name: Agents
        level: 3
      - name: Data Curation
        level: 3
      - name: SFT
        level: 2
      - name: LoRA/PEFT
        level: 2
      - name: Pre-training
        level: 2
      - name: Synth Data
        level: 2
  - group: ML \& NLP
    tags:
      - name: NLP
        level: 3
      - name: XAI / Interpretability
        level: 2
      - name: Pruning
        level: 2
      - name: Compression
        level: 2
      - name: Speech
      - name: RL
  - group: Frameworks & Tools
    tags:
      - name: HF
        level: 3
      - name: PyTorch
        level: 3
      - name: Docker
        level: 3
      - name: git
        level: 3
      - name: CI/CD
        level: 3
      - name: vLLM
        level: 2
      - name: PEFT
        level: 2
      - name: MLflow
        level: 2
      - name: SkLearn
        level: 2
  - group: Programming Languages
    tags:
      - name: Python
        level: 3
      - name: Rust
        level: 2
      - name: C++
        level: 1
      - name: CUDA
        level: 1
  - group: Languages
    tags:
      - name: Russian
        level: 3
      - name: English
        level: 3
      - name: Serbian
        level: 1
      - name: German

achievements:
  - Erasmus Mundus Scholarship 2022-2024; Honours Master's and Bachelor's;
  - 2x ACL accepted papers (2023, 2025);
  #  - Placed 2nd at Moscow State hackathon "Digital Transformation 2021";
  - Improved Python course at YSDA (~500 students), Top-1 by students' rating;
  - Graduated YSDA, 3% acceptance rate. #Master’s-level Data Science program

publications:
  - title: "U-MATH: A University-Level Benchmark for Evaluating Mathematical Skills in LLMs"
    venue: ACL-2025 workshop
    url: https://toloka.ai/math-benchmark
    year: 2025
    authors:
      [
        K.Chernyshev,
        V.Polshkov,
        E.Artemova,
        A.Myasnikov,
        V.Stepanov,
        A.Miasnikov,
        S.Tilga,
      ]
    abstract: >
      The current evaluation of mathematical skills in LLMs is limited, as existing benchmarks are either relatively small, primarily focus on elementary and high-school problems, or lack diversity in topics. Additionally, the inclusion of visual elements in tasks remains largely under-explored.
      To address these gaps, we introduce U-MATH, a novel benchmark of 1,100 unpublished open-ended university-level problems sourced from teaching materials. It is balanced across six core subjects, with 20% of multimodal problems. Given the open-ended nature of U-MATH problems, we employ an LLM to judge the correctness of generated solutions. To this end, we release μ-MATH, a dataset to evaluate the LLMs' capabilities in judging solutions.
      The evaluation of general domain, math-specific, and multimodal LLMs highlights the challenges presented by U-MATH. Our findings reveal that LLMs achieve a maximum accuracy of only 63% on text-based tasks, with even lower 45% on visual problems. The solution assessment proves challenging for LLMs, with the best LLM judge having an F1-score of 80% on μ-MATH.
  - title: "Hands-On Tutorial: Labeling with LLM and Human-in-the-Loop"
    venue: COLING-2025 tutorial
    url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04637
    year: 2024
    authors:
      [
        E.Artemova,
        A.Tsvigun,
        D.Schlechtweg,
        N.Fedorova,
        S.Tilga,
        K.Chernyshev,
        B.Obmoroshev,
      ]
    abstract: >
      Tutorial on synthetic data generation, active learning, and hybrid LLM+human labeling strategies.
      Covers real-life case studies, annotator management, quality control, and a hands-on workshop
      implementing a hybrid annotation setup. Targeted at NLP practitioners optimizing data labeling pipelines.

  - title: "LCT-1 at SemEval-2023 Task 10: Pre-training and Multi-task Learning for Sexism Detection and Classification"
    venue: ACL-2023 workshop
    url: https://github.com/lct-rug-2022/edos-2023
    year: 2023
    authors: [K.Chernyshev, E.Garanina, D.bayram, Q.Zheng]
    abstract: >
      Misogyny and sexism are growing problems in social media.
      Advances have been made in online sexism detection but the systems are often uninterpretable.
      SemEval-2023 Task 10 on Explainable Detection of Online Sexism aims at increasing
      explainability of the sexism detection, and our team participated in all the proposed subtasks.
      Our system is based on further domain-adaptive pre-training (Gururangan et al., 2020).
      Building on the Transformer-based models with the domain adaptation, we compare fine-tuning
      with multi-task learning and show that each subtask requires a different system configuration.
      In our experiments, multi-task learning performs on par with standard fine-tuning for sexism
      detection and noticeably better for coarse-grained sexism classification, while fine-tuning is
      preferable for fine-grained classification.

experience:
  - role: NLP Researcher, R&D
    company: Toloka AI
    location: Germany
    url: https://toloka.ai
    start: Jun 2024
    end: Present
    description:
      - ACL 2025 accepted, multimodal university-level Math Benchmark;
      - Developed a substantial part of Agentic+Human collab system;
      - Built Evaluation and led Agentic QA, improved quality on 30%+;
    tags: [Evaluation, Agents, Synth Data, Bench design, HF, Human-AI QA]

  - role: NLP Data Scientist
    company: EPAM Systems
    location: Serbia
    url: https://www.epam.com/
    start: Jan 2022
    end: Sep 2022
    description:
      - Trained an unsupervised model for support ticket trends over time;
      - Implemented a processing team predictive model, improving ticket processing efficiency by ~10s seconds per ticket for 100k tick./year.
    tags: [Python, FastText, SkLearn, PyTorch, HF, PyTest, Docker, Jenkins]

  - role: Python Course Head, Lecturer
    company: Yandex School of Data Analysis
    location: Russia
    url: https://academy.yandex.com/dataschool/
    start: Jan 2021
    end: Jan 2025
    description:
      - Led an `Advanced Python' (~500 students), managed team of 9;
      # - Managed a team of 9 people, planning, review, tech supervision;
      #      - Conducted lectures on 'Packages and Modules', 'Rust-bindings';
      - Boosted assignment-checking system (e.g 6x acceleration).
    tags: [Management, Python, Teaching, Docker, PyTest, CI/CD]

  - role: Research Engineer, Project Tech Lead
    company: Gorky AI (startup)
    location: Russia
    url: https://gorky.ai/
    start: Apr 2020
    end: Jan 2022
    description:
      - Led 2-4 developer teams; introduced CI/CD and code review;
      # - Managed 2-4 developers per project, liaising with clients;
      # - Introduced Align flow, CI/CD, code reviews, improved teamwork;
      #      - Adapted Voice Conversion model for Russian, close to real speech;
      #      - Made unsupervised location recommendations for business;
      #      - Developed month accurate covid-19 prediction model,  rough for several months;
      # - Developed a high-loaded 'roads quality' model on sensors data;
      # - Designed and developed a solution for scanned document analysis, trained a high mAP (~0.94) CV model for tables, imgs, and stamps.
      - Built ML models for phone sensors data analysis, near-sota Voice Conversion for Russian and CV document analysis (0.94 mAP).
    tags: [Python, PyTorch, HF, SkLearn, ONNX, Docker, CI/CD, Team Lead]

internships:
  - company: JetBrains Research
    location: Netherlands
    url: https://www.jetbrains.com/research/
    date: 2023
    description: Analyzed Internal Representation of code generation models.

  - company: GroNLP at University of Groningen
    location: Netherlands
    url: https://www.rug.nl/
    date: 2022
    description: Developed token-level alignment tool for MT evaluation.

  - company: LATNA at Higher School of Economics
    location: Russia
    url: https://nnov.hse.ru/en/latna/
    date: 2019-2020
    description: Created Abstractive Summarization model using Knowledge Graphs.

education:
  - degree: Master of Science (NLP)
    institution: Groningen & Saarland Unis.
    location: Netherlands & Germany
    url: https://lct-master.org/
    start: Sep 2022
    end: Aug 2024
    description: |
      Erasmus Mundus "Language & Communication Technologies";
      GPA: 8.7/10 +Assistant at Language Technology Project;
      Thesis on Mechanistic Interpretability for LLM pruning.

  - degree: Post Graduate 2-year Program (Data Science)
    institution: Yandex School of Data Analysis
    location: Russia
    url: https://academy.yandex.com/dataschool/
    start: Sep 2019
    end: Jul 2021
    description: |
      Top Russian Data Science program with 3% acceptance rate;
      GPA: 8.9/10; +Assistant at Python Course.

  - degree: Bachelor of Science (Applied Math and CS)
    institution: Higher School of Economics
    location: Russia
    url: https://hse.ru/en/
    start: Sep 2017
    end: Jul 2021
    honors: Cum Laude
    description: |
      GPA: 9.1/10; +Assistant at Algorithms and Data Structures.
      Thesis on Abstractive Text Summarization \w Knowledge Graphs.

certificates:
  - DL Optimization and Deployment using TensorFlow and TensorRT;
  #  - AI Workflows for Intelligent Video Analytics with DeepStream using TF and TRT;
  - Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA Python;
  - Intel Delta Courses (Delta 9, Delta 11).

projects:
  - name: Homelab
    description: Personal infrastructure-as-code project for managing my laptop/vps/homeserver with Ansible;
    url: https://github.com/k4black/homelab
    type: personal
    year: 2023
    tags:
      [
        Ansible,
        Infrastructure-as-Code,
        Docker,
        GitHub-Actions,
        WireGuard,
        Linux,
        macOS,
      ]

  - name: CodeBLEU
    description: Unofficial CodeBLEU metrics implementation as the original does not provide pip package, macOS support and usable interface;
    url: https://github.com/k4black/codebleu
    type: open-source
    year: 2023
    tags: [Python, Code, Code-Generation, CodeBLEU, PyPI, GitHub-Actions]

  - name: EDOS-2023
    description: Public repo for Sexism Detection Shared Task (EDOS 2023) by LCT-1 team utilising multitasking approach;
    url: https://github.com/lct-rug-2022/edos-2023
    year: 2023
    type: educational
    tags: [HF, MaChAmp, multitasking, Python, DVC]

  - name: auto-profile
    description: Small project to auto generate github profile, personal website and latex cv using single yaml file;
    url: https://github.com/k4black/auto-profile
    type: personal
    year: 2023
    tags: [Python, LaTeX, markdown, jinja2, GitHub-Actions]

  - name: Manytask
    description: Auto students' assignments testing system /w gitlab integration; Loaded about 1-2k students per year;
    url: https://github.com/manytask
    type: open-source
    year: 2023
    tags:
      [Teaching, Testing, Python, LiteStar, PyTest, GitHub-Actions, GitLab-CI]

  - name: fastapi-jwt
    description: FastAPI-native extension for JWT Auth;
    url: https://github.com/k4black/fastapi-jwt
    type: open-source
    year: 2021
    tags: [JWT, Python, FastAPI, PyTest]

  - name: Fact Aware Abstractive Summarization model
    description: Bachelor thesis project, Abstractive Summarization model using Knowledge Graphs - adding additional attention CNN graph encoder for PEGASUS model;
    url: https://github.com/k4black/sum
    type: educational
    year: 2018
    tags: [PyTorch, CoreNLP, FastText, Summarization, Python]

  - name: multi-label-image-classification
    description: Old project for Intel Delta 9 Course final competition - multi label image classification with Inception v3;
    url: https://github.com/k4black/Multi-Label-Image-Classification
    type: personal
    year: 2018
    tags: [TensorFlow, CV, Python]