Mikhail Kudriavtsev

For his Master’s degree, Mikhail studied Informatics and Computer Sciences at the Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology (MIET). Despite specializing in Microelectronics, he applied this knowledge in a variety of fields. As such, his Master’s thesis was on signal processing in human-computer interaction. He worked as a software developer for an IT company as part of an extremely experienced team produced a working national payment system for Armenia. After this Mikhail joined a scientific group in the Moscow State University of Design and Technology (MSUDT) to study the role of Artificial Intelligence in design. Specifically, his research topics included solving the problem of quick and objective user interface evaluation and fashion trend prediction. In MSUDT he started to study Machine Learning techniques and multivariate statistical analysis. At the same time, he worked as a lecturer at The University of Contemporary Art, Moscow, teaching UX design.

My main passion is science in general. That is why I like to study and then implement knowledge in any field. That is why I like to learn everything very classically: math, physics, computer science as well as art history, classical music, ballroom dancing, pure ballet. And that is why I like teaching; as a way to share science. Aristotle summed up my perspective when he said, “ true happiness is the exercise of reason – a life of intellectual contemplation, of thinking.” Currently, Mikhail is researching on Association Rule Mining techniques in general with further application to revenue management.

Supervisors: Dr. Marija Bezbradica and Dr. Andrew McCarren