Aleksandr Krainov

Aleksandr
Krainov

Director of AI Technologies Development
Yandex

Biography

Head of Yandex Machine Intelligence Laboratory, responsible for the direction of experimental AI-based products and technologies. 9 years he headed Yandex develops computer vision products and algorithms.

Before Yandex worked for SPIRIT DSP and its subsidiary, SeeStorm, as a Product Director. Was engaged in audio and video compression and transmission algorithms, speech recognition, video conferencing technologies, computer vision and 3D modeling.

Worked for one of the pioneers of the Russian Internet, the Port company.", where created a cataloging system for the first in Russia’s online marketplace.

The first place of work was scientific team «Supermatrix», where was engaged in machine design of the topology of superconducting matrices.