Short Bio

Nikolai is pursuing a PhD at Imperial College London under the supervision of Dr Marek Rei on Foundation Models, LLM agents. Specifically, Nikolai is looking at long-range reasoning, test-time computation, and generally improving LLM reasoning.

In his recent experience, Nikolai has also been the CTO and Head of Research of an AI deep-tech start-up based out of London for 7 years. His experience spanned from deploying and productionising AI products, to publishing papers in Tier-1 venues, to research collaborations with leading research labs (including with Prof. Iryna Gurevych).