Eugenia Cheskidova

ML Engineer, creative tinkerer. Currently obsessed with creative applications of the latest tech.

Tallinn, Estonia

EC

About

As a skilled engineer with 5+ years of experience, I'm deeply passionate about applied AI, product development, and tools for creativity that have the potential to change the world. I am committed to share my work and insights on my personal blog .

Work Experience

Ready Player Me
Machine Learning
Team Leadership

June 2019 - Present

Machine Learning Engineer / R&D Team Lead

  • Responsibilies: driving development and execution of technical ML roadmap for the projects, leading collaborations with internal and external teams, contributing to the projects directly and contributing to the company's AI strategy and vision.
  • Built the core ML tech behind selfie to 3D avatar technology and supported it over time.
  • Created R&D team and expanded it by hiring 2 more Research Scientists.
  • Developed and deployed Gen-AI texturing system for 3D Assets. [1]
  • Published the first paper from the company in a high profile venue (ACM SIGGRAPH Asia). [2]

Freelance
Consulting
Deep Learning

December 2020 - Present

Engineer / Consultant

As an occasional freelancer, I find joy in collaborating with developers driven by their passion and challenging tasks. I've contributed to projects ranging from creating visual effects using ML for a movie footage, exploring deep fake generation techniques, to training and deploying custom Stable Diffusion models.

Tinkoff Bank
Deep Learning
NLP

August 2018 - June 2019

Deep Learning Engineer

Worked in a team on a smart customer support system for the bank, that generates answers using NLP techniques. The system is in use and at the time was able to automate 30% of users’ requests to the support team.

Neural Networks and Deep Learning Lab
Research
NLP

June 2017 - June 2018

Research Assistant

  • Conducted research on goal-oriented chat-bot development with demo projects for Sberbank.
  • Developed educational course on Natural Language Processing.

InSilico Medicine Inc
Data Science

August 2015 - February 2017

Junior Analyst

Analyzed biological data using machine learning and statistical methods, contributed to published paper. [3]

Education

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University)

2013 - 2018
Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics

Publications

Geometry Aware Texturing

I presented this work at Real Time Live! on stage during SIGGRAPH Asia 2023. The proposed method allows to re-texture 3D assets fast by writing a prompt or using reference image.

Stable Diffusion
ControlNet
UV Texture

Skills

Python
Pytorch
Pytorch3D/Mitsuba
Blender
Docker/Cog
Linux
React/Next.js

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