Anton Dvorkovich
CEO & Founder
Amsterdam
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages
Work History
CEO & Founder
Dubformer
Amsterdam
04.2023 - Current
- Company Overview: AI Dubbing & Video Localization company
- AI dubbing with broadcast-level quality
- Launched on TV and Amazon Prime!
- AI Dubbing & Video Localization company
Head of Neurodub
Yandex
03.2022 - 03.2023
- Breaking language barriers by translating and dubbing videos with AI
- Led the development of Neurodub.ai
Head of NLP & Speech
Yandex
08.2021 - 09.2022
- Managed a cross-functional team of 100+ professionals (ML, backend, mobile, web, analytics, QA, PM) developing ML-heavy products:
- Yandex Translate: Neural Machine Translation system for 100+ languages with 20M+ active users and a commercial API
- Yandex Keyboard: ML-powered keyboard app for Android & iOS with 3M+ active users
- ASR, TTS & VQE services for Alice, Russia's most popular voice assistant
Principal Software Engineer, Deputy Head of NLP Department
Yandex
11.2019 - 08.2021
- Managed multiple ML & product teams across the department
- Rebuilt mobile & web teams
- Led Yandex Keyboard to its first million users
- Responsible hiring manager for the entire department
Principal Software Developer, Team Lead
Yandex
11.2017 - 10.2019
- Led the MT Functionality team, developing statistical and ML-based APIs for Yandex Translate
- Took ownership of Yandex Keyboard (ML-based mobile keyboard for Android & iOS)
Senior Software Developer, Team Lead
Yandex
11.2016 - 10.2017
- Launched Neural Machine Translation at Yandex
- Led the MT Functionality team, enhancing Yandex Translate
Software Developer
Yandex
11.2015 - 10.2016
- Improved machine translation quality for morphologically rich languages
- Developed Transliteration & Word Segmentation services
- Worked on MT for low-resource languages
Junior Software Developer
Yandex
11.2014 - 10.2015
- Developed Machine Dictionary API for Yandex Translate
- Built Predictor API: a statistical query completion and correction web service for 50+ languages
Software Development Intern
Yandex
03.2014 - 10.2014
- Engineered features & improved hypotheses generation for Yandex Search Spelling Correction service
Education
Master of Science -
Moscow Institute of Physics And Technology
Moscow 09.2009 - 06.2015
Skills
- AI & Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Speech Technologies (ASR, TTS, VQE)
- Product Management
- Team Leadership & Hiring
- Software Development (Python, C, etc)
- Localization & Translation Technologies
Publications And Achievements
- Method and system of translating a source phrase in a first language into a target phrase in a second language, US 11568155, 01/31/23.
- Method and server for training a machine learning algorithm for translation, US 11361169, 06/14/22.
- Method and system of translating a source sentence in a first language into a target sentence in a second language, US 10789431, 09/29/20.
- Method and server for training a machine learning algorithm for executing translation, US 17553788,Application filed, 06/30/22.
- Methods and systems for creating a training dataset for training a machine learning algorithm (MLA) for a machine-translation task, US 17553798, Application filed, 06/23/22.
- Findings of the WMT24 general machine translation shared task: the LLM era is here but mt is not solved yet, Association for Computational Linguistics, 11/15/24.
- Findings of the 2023 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT23): LLMs Are Here But Not Quite There Yet.
- Association for Computational Linguistics, 12/06/23.
- Findings of the 2022 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT22).
- Association for Computational Linguistics, 12/01/22, Yandex School of Data Analysis approach to English-Turkish translation at WMT16 News Translation Task, Association for Computational Linguistics, 08/01/16.
Timeline
CEO & Founder
Dubformer
04.2023 - Current
Head of Neurodub
Yandex
03.2022 - 03.2023
Head of NLP & Speech
Yandex
08.2021 - 09.2022
Principal Software Engineer, Deputy Head of NLP Department
Yandex
11.2019 - 08.2021
Principal Software Developer, Team Lead
Yandex
11.2017 - 10.2019
Senior Software Developer, Team Lead
Yandex
11.2016 - 10.2017
Software Developer
Yandex
11.2015 - 10.2016
Junior Software Developer
Yandex
11.2014 - 10.2015
Software Development Intern
Yandex
03.2014 - 10.2014
Master of Science -
Moscow Institute of Physics And Technology
09.2009 - 06.2015