Alterra.ai
Founder, CEO
Founded a Deep Learning / NLP startup that teaches computers to understand human language. Our NLP engine converts natural language questions and commands to formal queries... more a computer can understand.
Sergei Burkov
4x entrepreneur (Bilbo, @invincible-data-systems, @dulance, @alterra), sold a company to @google, became the first head of its Moscow R&D Center. PhD in Physics
4x entrepreneur (Bilbo, @invincible-data-systems, @dulance, @alterra), sold a company to @google, became the first head of its Moscow R&D Center. PhD in Physics
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Head of Long Tail Product Search special project
Lead the effort to develop a shopping solution capable of finding everything and anything sold online. The tool extracts product names, images and prices directly from websites... more of online retailers. This approach allows us to cover virtually all small and specialty stores, across the World, selling virtually any product, no matter how rare it might be.
Head of Moscow R&D Center
Established, grown and developed the R&D Center by recruiting first-class Russian engineers. Managed development of products and technologies for both local and international... more markets. In less than 2 years Google Russia dramatically improved its Russian language search quality, launched over a dozen products, tripled its traffic and moved from #3 to #2, increasing its market share from 10% to 27%.
Dulance
Founder, CEO
Founded and lead a startup in Artificial Intelligence, before it was cool. We built the first Long Tail Product Search solution. It extracted product names, images and prices... more directly from websites of online retailers. This approach allowed us to cover virtually all small and specialty stores, selling virtually any product, no matter how rare it might be. Sold it to Google.
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Bot that answers questions about our clients' products
Founder & CEO
A bot that answers questions – about your products, about your company. Convert static FAQ files to a question-answering bot.… · More
Fully autonomous – no live agents needed. Appears in a widget on your website. Helps to convert visitors to customers.
A bot that answers questions – about your products, about your company. Convert static FAQ files to a question-answering bot.… · More
Fully autonomous – no live agents needed. Appears in a widget on your website. Helps to convert visitors to customers.
Virtual AI travel agent, a Telegram bot
@AlterraBot is a virtual travel agent, a Telegram bot. She can help you discover where to go on vacation and what to see there, and book hotels
Virtual AI travel agent, a Facebook Messenger bot
Alterra is a virtual AI travel agent, a messenger bot (powered by algorithms, not humans). It helps travelers to discover where to go on vacation and what to… · More see there, and book flights and hotels.
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Q&A
What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?
Э. Успенский. Бизнес крокодила Гены
What's your favorite non-business book?
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?
Bitching about "Bullshit is eating the world"
What's the most creative thing you've ever done?
Came up with the "Burkov model of quasicrystals"
What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?
email :-)
What words of wisdom do you live by?
Don't believe in your own bullshit
What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?
Stitching it all together and getting things done
What was the most impactful class you took in school?
Theory of relativity
What's something you wish you had done years earlier?
Left the Soviet Union. But the fucking Commies didn't let me go.
What's an obstacle you've overcome?
Arriving in the US with two proverbial suitcases and $200 in my pocket
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