David Dale

I am a 30-years-old IT specialist, working mostly with natural language processing.
I am from Russia, but now I am living in Paris.
I have a full time job, and I do not want to change it. But I may be open to side projects, if they are interesting and ethical.
I oppose the Russian military aggression and support the independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine.
I support the anti-war and liberation movements in Russian federation with donations, and I may take part in volunteering work for them.

I work in FAIR (Facebook AI Research) on the machine translation project No Language Left Behind.
As side projects, I develop NLP tools and applications such as:

The first neural machine translation system for the Erzya language (paper, blog post in Russian, code)
A framework for creating chat bots in Python Dialogic
A package for compressing FastText models compress-fasttext
Neural network models for Russian language, such as tiny BERT and Russian T5 in the Huggingface repository
Skills for the Alice voice assistant dialogic.digital

I teach applied mathematics and data analysis, in particular:
- A course on Probability and Statistics for Data Scientists in the Tel Aviv school of Data Analysis (Y-DATA).
- An introduction to Data Science for Products and other managers, a course by MIPT and MathsHub
- Ad-hoc lectures on correct problem statements for data science, natural language processing, basics of mathematical modelling, and other interesting topics.

I worked in the NLP lab at Skoltech university as a research developer
- I ~~taught robots to swear dirty~~ worked on problems of text style transfer
- E.g. this paper was accepted at EMNLP
I took part in developing the Alice voice assistant by Yandex:
- Helped creating and improving new scenarios for the Yandex.Station smart speaker
- Boosted the quality and usability of the intent classifier
- Fixed a great deal of bugs (and created some new ones)
I worked as an analyst in Yandex Data Factory
- Helped our clients from manufacturing industries to apply AI for improvement of their production processes
- For example, I helped the Chelpipe plant to harden the pipes faster, without deterioraton in their quality
I helped to manage retail credit risks at Alfa Bank
- Developed new models for forecasting credit losses
- Supported and improved the strategy of issuing credit cards.
- Optimized the algorithm of calling debtors

Разрабатывал Яндекс.Алису:
- Помогал создавать и улучшать новые сценарии для Яндекс.Станции
- Прокачивал классификатор интентов
- Фиксил баги и создавал новые
Работал аналитиком в Yandex Data Factory
- Помогал нашим клиентам из промышленности применять ИИ для оптимизации процессов
- Например, помог ЧТПЗ быстрее закаливать трубы, не ухудшая их качество.
Работал в Управлении розничных рисков в Альфа-Банке
- Строил новые модели для прогнозирования кредитных потерь
- Поддерживал и улучшал стратегию выдачи кредитных карт
- Оптимизировал алгоритм обзвона должников