Speaker Profile

Nikolai Yakovenko is a senior deep learning research scientist at Nvidia in Santa Clara, California. He specializes in applications of neural network natural language processing (NLP) to real world, large scale problems. He is also interested in applying deep learning to graphs, poker, genomics, and other unusual problems. Before Nvidia, Nikolai worked on NLP and deep learning at Google and Twitter. He has also made four World Series of Poker (WSOP) final tables.