Experience

Kimova AI · Remote-first

Pioneering AI-driven ISO auditing — transforming how organizations achieve and maintain cybersecurity compliance.

• Revolutionizing ISO/IEC 27001:2022 compliance assessments with AI automation.
• Lead product strategy, fundraising, partnerships and client engagements.
• Driving the roadmap from research-grade models to enterprise-ready product.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.