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Kirill Lalayants

Data Scientist

I’m a Data Scientist at Sberbank CIB, where I develop reinforcement learning agents for pricing and trading desk optimization. Previously, I worked on pricing and experimentation at Yandex Lavka and conducted robotics research at ITMO.

I’m also pursuing a joint master’s program in AI & FinTech at the New Economic School and Skoltech.

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Experience

  • Sberbank CIB

    May 2026 — present

    Data Scientist

    • Develop and implement RL agents for pricing and trading desk optimization.

  • Yandex Lavka

    Jan 2026 — May 2026

    Data Scientist

    • Optimized discount levels, increasing Front Margin by 5%.
    • Automated the discount approval process for commercial managers.
    • Evaluated the impact of promotions on revenue, margin and conversion using A/B testing, uplift modeling and DiD.
    • Built infrastructure for experiment setup, event logging and metric calculation.

  • ITMO University

    Jul 2022 — Jun 2025

    Research Engineer

    • Worked on ML, computer vision and robotics projects at the Adaptive and Nonlinear Control Systems Lab.
    • Developed and deployed a UAV SLAM system running at 25 FPS on NVIDIA Jetson Xavier.
    • Implemented safe RL for robotic manipulation, achieving a 95% grasp success rate and a tool calibration error of less than 1 mm.

  • BRIZ Project

    Dec 2023 — Jul 2024

    Team Lead

    • Led a team of three developers on a collaborative aerial robotics project.
    • Developed flight control and motion planning systems using PX4 and ROS2.

Education

  • New Economic School

    2025 — 2027

    Master’s program · AI & FinTech

  • Skoltech

    2025 — 2027

    Master’s program · Data Science

  • ITMO University

    2021 — 2025

    B.Sc. · Robotics & Artificial Intelligence

Patent & software registration

Contributions & achievements

  • Ultralytics contributorFixed a bug that occurred when moving models to a TPU.
  • StarLine Hackathon winner“Autonomous Future”, 2023.
  • English · AdvancedTOEFL iBT · 106/120.

Toolkit: Python, SQL, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Git, Docker.

Contact

lalayantskirill@gmail.com@kirill_lalayants