← Ivan Kochergin · ·

Experience

Where I work now — LLM automation, retrieval research, and the product I co-founded.

T-Bank (formerly Tinkoff)

Jul 2026 — Present

Machine Learning Engineer · AI Automation for T-Business

Moscow, Russia.

  • Work on AI automation for internal T-Business processes, so teams spend less time on manual work. Right now that is automated document verification with LLM and VLM models.
  • Contribute to the labeled evaluation set and the metric framework — precision, recall, confidence thresholds — that determines which model answers are accepted without human review.
  • LLM
  • VLM
  • Python
  • Evaluation

AIRI Artificial Intelligence Research Institute

Jun 2026 — Present

Machine Learning Researcher

Moscow, Russia.

  • Co-develop OCC-RAG, a retrieval-augmented generation model. Work covers retriever and generation architecture, training runs, and ablation studies against open-source RAG baselines.
  • Design and build a benchmark for agentic research: task suite, automated scoring, and baseline evaluation of frontier LLM agents.
  • PyTorch
  • RAG
  • LLM agents
  • Benchmarks

Unilume.ai

Nov 2025 — Present

Co-founder · Machine Learning and Sales

Cerritrade OÜ, Estonia.

  • Co-founded a company, now a team of 13, building an AI copilot for university admissions. Sold directly to students and to the consultants who advise them, across the US, UK, EU and Asia.
  • Built the recommendation engine: a mathematical matching model that scores university fit against real admissions outcomes, with LLM layers that read the rest of the profile and suggest the angles to build an application around.
  • Run ML and sales.
  • Recommender systems
  • LLM
  • Product
  • Sales