Alexander Ponamarev

About Alexander Ponamarev

Forward thinking machine learning engineer with a focus on deep learning research and delivering products.

Experience

1. Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Deep Learning)

   Artisight

   Apr 2020 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Delivered deep learning (Computer Vision and LLM) systems to enhance patient outcomes. Own full AI product life-cycle, including requirements gathering, managing data labeling process, setting up and maintaining CICD pipelines.• Designed, implemented, and delivered LLM based services - Patient Length-of-Stay and Healthcare Resource Utilization. Services were deployed at a large hospital network supporting over 600 patients on a daily basis. • Led team of 4 engineers to set up data collection, train LLMs (via parameter efficient fine tuning), implement and deploy model inference service.• Developed and deployed Surgical-Action Recognition service (computer vision) in Northwestern University hospital to provide support for all laparoscopic surgeries.• Created a model training process (PyTorch) that used parameter efficient fine tuning (LoRA) to train large vision models (DINOv2) and distill the resulting model into a light production model (EfficientNet Small). This training process increased model accuracy (+7%) while maintaining high inference speed (30+ FPS).• Developed self-supervised learning (SSL) pipeline that reduced manual labeling needs by 80% and increased product accuracy (+9%).• Deployed object detection (YOLO) and action recognition (EfficientNet backbone + LSTM) models into production responsible for +20% of AI revenue of the company.

Education

• Udacity

  Computer Vision Nanodegree, Computer Science

  2021 — 2021

• Udacity

  AI Nanodegree, Artificial Intelligence

  2017 — 2018

• Alliance Manchester Business School

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General

  2011 — 2013

Skills

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Entrepreneurship
• C++
• Business Analysis
• Swift
• Strategy
• Banking
• Python
• Team Management
• Sql
• Opencv
• Financial Modeling
• Corporate Finance
• Project Management
• Forecasting
• Market Research
• Artificial Neural Networks
• Torch
• Strategic Consulting
• Management Consulting
• Strategic Planning
• Computer Vision
• Budgeting
• Analytical Skills
• Caffe
• Tensorflow
• Financial Analysis
• Budgets
• Finance
• Valuation
• Machine Learning
• Marketing Strategy
• Data Analysis
• Business Strategy
• Portfolio Management
• Competitive Analysis
• Deep Learning
• Artificial Intelligence
• Analysis
• Objective-C