Here is the mix of the projects I was working on either as as an individual contributor before co-founding [Neurons Lab](https://neurons-lab.com/) in 2019 as a CTO. ### AI engineering As a one-person AI consulting agency I worked with (selected projects): - 🇮🇹 [Artesys Orion](https://artesysorion.eu/) - project portfolio management optimization, research - 🇮🇹 [Remago](https://remago.com/) - object segmentation for AR, MVP release - 🇮🇹 [Socialmeter](https://socialmeter.it/en/) - general classification/detection suite, MVP release - 🇮🇹 [Zupit](https://www.zupit.it/) - documents classification, accuracy improvement - 🇺🇦 *Ukrainian firm, NDA* - Omaha poker bot + sports betting models development - 🇺🇦 [Semanticforce](https://semanticforce.ai/en) - aspect-based sentiment analysis, MVP development - 🇺🇦 [Payphone X](https://web.payphone.io/) - profanity detection, sentiment analysis - 🇺🇸 [MedTechCollective](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/medtechcollective) - PoCs for nutrition and sports - 🇩🇪 [Ilogos Europe](https://ilogos.biz/) - LTV / churn prediction, PoC release - 🇷🇺 [Mlvch](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/mlvch/__CflzzCNPQFp-hdXcLtPz7yfAS4K_gVWNQCAa6RnaN5s) - style transfer commercial app, product release - 🇭🇰 *The top-tier Asian hedge fund, NDA* - trading strategy with allocation capacity up to $1B. For a period of time, I was co-founding engineer at 2 startups. First one was 🇮🇹 [HPA](https://www.hpa.ai/tmp/) - I co-founded the firm as CTO, but left after a year of collaboration, later on [the firm was acquired by Terranova](https://hpa.ai/2021/04/13/%F0%9F%92%A5-terranova-software-entra-nel-capitale-sociale-di-hpa/). More or less at the same time I was co-founding data scientist at 🇺🇦 [Mawi Band](https://mawi.band/) - some of the learnings from the journey you can this journey you can find [here](https://medium.com/mawi-band). Also, I formed a small team and participated in 🇺🇸 [Numerai Signals competition](https://signals.numer.ai/) - achieving [top-1% position](https://signals.numer.ai/richard_n1ckson), learnings [here](https://mirror.xyz/0xDE1BEEcCa1467d428fA44250298f55A78743F6EF/FPtc8ng7uZ3xhPmn3TfihZRl-UPo2obiPGy04_YCfDY). ### AI research and writing I shared a lot of research and insights in my blog posts on [Medium](https://medium.com/@alexhonchar) (1.6M+ views) and within academic writing that you can find on my [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=S7ocd4YAAAAJ&hl=en) (700+ citations). Some of the projects on my [GitHub](https://github.com/Rachnog/) have 1.5k+ stars. My short-form write-ups on [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandr-honchar/) and [X](https://x.com/rachnogstyle) accounts attracted some attention and followers as well.