We are the team from the Neural Networks and Deep Learning Lab at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia. The main research area of our lab is NLP with a focus on Conversational Intelligence and Dialog Agents. We develop a conversational artificial intelligence framework DeepPavlov that contains all the components required for building chatbots. DREAM Team also participated in Alexa Prize Challenge 3. The DREAM socialbot is based on open-source platform Dp-Agent that our lab is also working on.
Dilyara B. - Team leader
Dilyara is a PhD student and researcher in Neural Networks and Deep Learning Laboratory at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Dilyara was an official member of the DREAM team during the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 3, and developed several cool components. She has two master degrees in Computational Mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology. Dilyara’s current research is dedicated to evolutionary algorithms for neural architecture search.
Denis K.
Denis is a PhD student and researcher in Neural Networks and Deep Learning Laboratory at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Denis was an official member of the DREAM team during the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 3. He has a master's degree in Electronics and Nuclear Technology Automation of National Research Nuclear University MEPhI. His current research is dedicated to the applications of neural network based language models.
Dmitry E.
Dmitry is a PhD student and junior researcher in Neural Networks and Deep Learning Laboratory at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He has a master's degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Dmitry’s current research is dedicated to knowledge base question answering, open domain question answering and entity linking.
Alsu S.
Alsu is a PhD student and a junior researcher in Neural Networks and Deep Learning Laboratory at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. She has two master's degrees with honours: in Applied Mathematics and Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and in Mathematics and Computer Science at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology. Alsu’s current research is dedicated to the memory-augmented Transformers.
Dmitry K.
Dmitry has finished his secondary education with a silver medal in 10 years (instead of 11). He also has won the Moscow chess championship among private school students.During his study at MIPT, he has received 2 extra scholarships (Abramov scholarship, state elevated scholarship), and earned his BA degree with honors. In 2017, Dmitry switched his research area to Computer Science. Since that he has managed to win DeepHack.Chat competition. Dmitry also has participated in 3 scientific conferences and 1 robotic competition. He enrolled in MIPT PhD program in 2019, and participated in the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 3.
Anton P.
Anton is a PhD student and junior researcher in Neural Networks and Deep Learning Laboratory at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He has a master's degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Dmitry’s current research is dedicated to long context transformers, correlation and decorrelation of neurons during training.
Mikhail Burtsev - Faculty advisor
Mikhai Burtsev is a head of Neural Networks and Deep Learning Laboratory at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He is also founder and leader of open-source conversational AI framework DeepPavlov. Mikhail had proposed and co-organized a series of academic Conversational AI Challenges (including NIPS 2017, NeurIPS 2018, EMNLP 2020).
His research interests are in fields of Natural Language Processing , Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Complex Systems. Mikhail has published more than 20 technical papers including – Nature, Artificial Life, Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and other peer reviewed venues.
