Hi there!

I’m Igor, an applied scientist at Amazon Alexa working on agentic tool calling capabilities of Alexa+. I obtained my PhD from the Interaction Lab, Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK) working under the supervision of Prof. Oliver Lemon and Dr. Arash Eshghi on Machine Learning/Natural Language Processing methods for data-efficient, robust, and practically applicable dialogue systems. Dr. Ioannis Konstas and Prof. Andreas Vlachos were my examiners - internal and external, respectively. If you think my background could be useful for you, please feel free to contact me.

You can find my CV pdf here.

🚅🚌 I’m also a fan of public transport so much so that I made T-shirt designs with the logos of some transportation systems here in the US. I wear one of those myself and you can do too - check out my merch page on TeePublic, they can work as a nice exclusive gift! 🎨🛍️

⏰🚫 I also built Cheat, a browser extension to help limit time on distracting sites. If you find yourself spending too much time on social media or other time-wasting websites, Cheat gives you a simple way to set time limits and stay focused. It’s available for Chrome, Edge and Firefox!