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General Information
| Full Name | Igor Melnyk |
| Position | Distinguished Applied Researcher at Capital One |
| Contact | igor.melnyk at capital one dot com |
Education
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2016 PhD in Computer Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN - Thesis: Dynamic Bayesian Networks - Estimation, Inference and Applications
- Advisor: Prof. Arindam Banerjee
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2009 MS in Computer Science
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO -
2004 BS in Computer Science
Dnipro National University, Dnipro, Ukraine
Experience
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2024 - present Distinguished Applied Researcher
Capital One, New York, NY -
2016 - 2024 Research Staff Member
IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY -
2009-2016 Research Assistant
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN -
2014 Data Scientist
NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA -
2008 Software Developer
Cisco Systems, Boulder, CO
Research Interests
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Sequential Tabular Data
- Modeling and forecasting sequential data with a focus on event sequence modeling, anomaly and pattern detection, and graph-based representations of customer interactions.
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Generative Models
- A broad class of machine learning algorithms that focuses on understanding the underlying data distribution and generate new samples with statistical properties similar to the original dataset.
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Knowledge Graphs
- Automatic extraction of structured representations from text data, involving identifying entities, disambiguating their meanings, and mapping them to a graph-based representation for efficient storage, retrieval, and reasoning.
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Protein Design
- Forward protein design predicts the structure and function of a protein based on its amino acid sequence, while the inverse design estimates a protein sequence with a desired structure and function.
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Information Theory
- Information theoretic view of neural networks analyzing their properties to gain understanding on how they represent and process information, as well as for designing efficient architectures.
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Image Captioning
- The task of analyzing the visual content of an image and generating a coherent and textual description that accurately describes the content of an image.
Technical Skills
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- Python/C++
- Pytorch/Tensoflow
- Pytorch Lightning
- IBM Spectrum LSF