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École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) · Lausanne, Switzerland

• Jointly hosted by Volkan Cevher's LIONS group and Martin Jaggi's MLO group.
• Developing theoretically grounded methods to make large-scale AI training faster and more resource-efficient, with emphasis on distributed and asynchronous optimization, communication efficiency, and model parallelism.

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) · Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

• Thesis: First Provably Optimal Asynchronous SGD for Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Data
• Advisor: Prof. Peter Richtárik

Yerevan State University · Yerevan, Armenia

• Thesis: On local training methods
• Co-supervisors: Prof. Peter Richtárik, Mher Safaryan

Yerevan State University · Yerevan, Armenia

• Thesis: On the Convergence of Series in Classical Systems
• Supervisor: Prof. Martin Grigoryan

Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA) · Beijing, China

• Collaborated on server-assisted federated learning.
• Delivered invited seminars at Peking University (PKU), Beihang University (BUAA), and BIMSA.

Yerevan State University · Yerevan, Armenia

• Investigated universal functions for the Vilenkin and Haar systems across different function spaces.

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) · Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

• Contributed to GradSkip (TMLR), a communication-efficient local optimization method with improved complexity.

YerevaNN · Yerevan, Armenia

• Researched optimization methods for federated learning.

OnePick · Yerevan, Armenia

• Built an MVP that helped content creators and marketers select photos matching their text descriptions.
• Advanced through FAST's InVent 2.0: team formation, ideation, product development, and pitching.
• Secured initial funding and continued development beyond the program.

EXALT Technologies Ltd. · Remote (Yerevan, Armenia)

• Contributed to backend development for a Nutanix project.

Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST) · Yerevan, Armenia

• Developed machine-learning models for fraud detection.
• Built machine-learning and statistical models for data-driven forecasting.

Picsart · Yerevan, Armenia

• Developed test-automation solutions across several mobile and web applications.
• Collaborated across engineering, QA, product, and business teams to diagnose and resolve product issues.
• Proposed improvements to DevOps processes and Jenkins CI pipelines.

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

• Competitive fellowship supporting independent research, with an additional travel fund (CHF 5,000 annually)

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

• Awarded for excellent academic and research performance (USD 2,500)

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

• Merit-based award for selected incoming KAUST students (USD 18,000 over three years)

Yerevan State University

• Recognized for an outstanding bachelor's thesis (one of 6 recipients among 250+ students)