Dmitry Laptev

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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra

Hi, my name is Dmitry, or simply Dima.

I work as a Senior Staff AI/ML Engineer in Search Quality at Google Zurich, focusing on Grounding and Factuality of GenAI Search (AI Overviews and AI Mode).

I am interested in building, evaluating and deploying production ML/AI systems in Unverifiable Domains, focusing on Agentic Information Retrieval, Distillation and Evals.

My background in three points:

I hold a PhD from ETH Zurich, Institute of Machine Learning. I worked there on optimization techniques for general computer vision and medical imaging under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Joachim M. Buhmann;
Prior to that, I earned a diploma in Applied Math and Computer Science from Lomonosov Moscow State University. There I majored in Machine Learning as a part of Bayesian Methods research group headed by Dr. Dmitry P. Vetrov;
Alongside my studies, I worked at Yandex as a Search Quality analyst, PwC as an IT Audit Associate.

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