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Career

Experience

A path across entrepreneurship, frontier research and applied AI in industry — over 10 countries.

  1. Co-founder & CEO

    2024 — Present

    Kimova AI · Remote-first

    Building an agentic AI co-auditor for ISO, SOC 2 and privacy audits — for audit firms and in-house compliance teams.

    • AI support across the audit cycle: planning, evidence review, conducting the audit, corrective actions and reporting.
    • Lead product strategy, fundraising, partnerships and client engagements.
    • Driving the roadmap from research-grade models to enterprise-ready product.
    • Selected for the next cohort of the Tehnopol AI Accelerator (Tallinn).
    StartupAI/MLCybersecurityLeadership
  2. Postdoctoral Researcher

    2024 — Present

    TalTech University, Estonia · Tallinn, Estonia

    Leading multidisciplinary research under the EXAI grant on multimodal reasoning agents.

    • Designing novel evaluation pipelines for large vision-language models.
    • Developed AI agents with enhanced reasoning capabilities.
    • Established new state-of-the-art benchmarks on real-world datasets.
    ResearchVLMsAcademia
  3. Data Scientist

    2024

    Sandvik — Center for AI and Automation · Germany

    End-to-end AI solutions delivered within an Azure cloud environment.

    • Led development and deployment of production AI services.
    • Aligned business needs with technical execution across stakeholders.
    • Owned platform reliability and seamless integration of AI services.
    IndustryAzureAI/ML
  4. Researcher

    2023

    German Research Center for AI (DFKI) · Germany

    Perception systems for driver behavioral modeling in connected & automated mobility (CCAM).

    • Applied Bayesian Belief Networks for scalable Driver Behavioral Models.
    • Contributed to the EU Horizon project BERTHA.
    ResearchAutomotiveEU Project
  5. Doctoral Researcher

    2019 — 2023

    Serre Lab, Brown University / ANITI · USA / France

    Research on abstract reasoning and attention mechanisms in cognitive and computer vision.

    • Developed novel architectures combining attention and memory (GAMR).
    • Published in NeurIPS, ICLR and Neural Computation.
    • Optimized multi-million-parameter Transformers on multi-GPU HPC (Slurm).
    PhDResearchPublications
  6. Research Engineer

    Feb 2019 — Jul 2019

    WeDiagnostiX · France

    First working prototype for maxillary structure classification from X-ray images.

    • Deep learning for semantic & instance segmentation of teeth.
    • Built an end-to-end pipeline from data collection to functional prototype.
    Medical AIComputer Vision

Where it started

Early ventures

Kevin Technology

Co-founder · Ajmer, India · 2016–2017

Co-founded a startup developing surveillance systems based on computer vision.

Education

Academic foundation

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

2019 — 2023

Cognitive AI & Computer Vision

Brown University (USA) · ANITI / Université Paul Sabatier (France)

Thesis: Exploring the role of (self-)attention in cognitive and computer vision architectures

Advisor: Prof. Thomas Serre (Brown University)

Erasmus Joint MSc — Vision & Robotics (VIBOT)

2017 — 2019

Heriot-Watt (UK) · Univ. of Bourgogne (France) · Univ. of Girona (Spain)

Thesis: MU-Net: a deep learning model for teeth segmentation from panoramic X-ray images

Advisor: Prof. Hugues Talbot (CentraleSupélec)

B.Tech (Hons.) — Electronics & Communication Engineering

2009 — 2013

LNM Institute of Information Technology, India

Thesis: Residue coding technique for video compression

Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Anil Kumar Tiwari (IIT Jodhpur)