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Nikita Pavlichenko

Staff Research Engineer / Team Lead @ JetBrains AI

I build and train large language models for code. Currently leading the development of Mellum, an open-source code LLM family. Previously at Yandex, working on crowdsourcing and AI research.

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JetBrains AI

Staff Research Engineer / Team Lead

Mar 2024 – Present
Berlin, Germany

Leading development of Mellum, an open-source code LLM family. Training billion-parameter models on 512×H200 GPUs.

Yandex

AI Research Scientist

Sep 2020 – Mar 2024
Belgrade, Serbia

Deep learning research for Toloka AI. Led alignment (SFT/RLHF) for LLM training. 6 publications at NeurIPS, SIGIR, HCOMP.

MIPT & Inria NANO-D

Research Intern

Mar 2020 – Sep 2020
Moscow / Grenoble

Developed S-GCN for protein quality prediction. Achieved state-of-the-art on CASP MQA challenge.

Yandex

ML/SWE Intern

2018 – 2019
Moscow, Russia

Built ML models for video ranking. Improved search anti-spam systems performance by 5%.

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Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

MSc & BSc in Computer Science

Graduated 2023. Focus on machine learning and algorithms.

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+ more on Google Scholar

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PythonC++RustPyTorchDistributed TrainingLLMsRLHFNLPComputer VisionKubernetes
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I occasionally write about ML, engineering, and random thoughts.

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