Makhmud Shaban

Experience

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  Yandex

  Jul 2019 - Nov 2019

  CV/DL Engineer Intern

  Worked on transferring image feature extraction pipeline to a newer framework - TensorFlow.

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  Cognitive Dynamic Systems Lab, MIPT

  Jul 2020 - Jul 2021

  Deep Learning Researcher

  Conducted various experiments and participated in research in the field of Visual Question Answering.Successfully trained SOTA model with modification in scene parsing - using Vector Symbolic Architectures to enhance the ability of the model to generalize on VQA task extensions. Co-authored a paper on the following topicSuccessfully adapted the following approach to Visual Dialog and co-authored a paper on the results of such adaptation.

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  Prisma Labs, Inc.

  Oct 2021 - Dec 2023

  Research And Development Engineer

  Worked on a broad spectrum of features, including Style Transfer, Image Generation and general Computer Vision algorithms.Lensa:1. Neck shadow - applying realistic shadow that makes the visual separation of face and neck more apparent- Designed, developed and refined mobile-friendly neck shadow algorithm, which made it to production and is available on Lensa app.2. "Magic Avatars" for Lensa- Participated in the development of "Magic Avatars" - a viral neural network portrait generation feature, which enabled Lensa to get to the top of App Store/Play Store and attracted millions of users worldwide.3. Charm AI - Conducted various experiments to improve the quality of face beautification solution.Prisma: 1. Oil painting style - Conducted extensive experiments that improved the quality and got rid of artifacts in oil painting stylization, on-device model successfully integrated.Improved general speed of conducting experiments by reimplementing augmentations, which led to 4x speedup and removed bottleneck in preparation of images. Show less

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  Higher School of Economics

  Nov 2021 - Dec 2021

  Guest Instructor

  - Conducted Research Seminar which consisted of 4 classes- Co-developed a seminar plan for the students

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  Nim

  Feb 2024 - now

  Founding Computer Vision Research Engineer