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General Information
Full Name | Igor Melnyk |
Position | Research Staff Member at IBM Research |
Contact | igor.melnyk at ibm.com |
Education
- 2016
PhD in Computer Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
- Thesis: Dynamic Bayesian Networks - Estimation, Inference and Applications
- Advisor: Prof. Arindam Banerjee
- 2009
MS in Computer Science
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
- 2004
BS in Computer Science
Dnipro National University, Dnipro, Ukraine
Experience
- 2016 - present
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
- 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.
- 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.
- Knowledge Graph
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.
- Style Transfer
The task of transforming the style or tone of a given text while preserving its semantic meaning and structure.
- 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.
- 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.
- Anomaly Detection
The task of identifying patterns that deviate from the expected behavior of a system or dataset.
Technical Skills
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- Python/C++
- Pytorch/Tensoflow
- Pytorch Lightning
- IBM Spectrum LSF