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Basics

Name Sofia Kirsanova
Label Ph.D. student in Knowledge Computing Lab at the University of Minnesota
Email kirsa002@umn.edu

Projects

  • 2024.09 - Present
    IMOLA: Automated Road Network Extraction & Topological Mapping
    sponsor: NSF
    advisor: Dr. Yao-Yi Chiang
    status: ongoing
    • Developing deep-learning methods for extracting road networks from maps and building topology reconstruction algorithms
  • 2024.09 - 2025.12
    CriticalMAAS: Legend Detection & Map Layout Analysis
    sponsor: DARPA CriticalMAAS
    advisor: Dr. Yao-Yi Chiang
    status: completed
    • Developed deep-learning methods for legend detection, achieving 96% symbol-detection F1 and 97.1% symbol-description linking accuracy
  • 2022.09 - 2023.05
    Methods for Detecting Critical Events in System Log Data
    advisors: Oleg Gorokhov, Mikhail Petrovsky
    • Developed NLP-inspired preprocessing and semantic extraction techniques for unstructured system logs
    • Built CNN-based anomaly detectors achieving 98% accuracy on processed logs and 82% on raw logs
    • Proposed process-mining-based clustering for modeling log-event sequences at scale
  • 2019.10 - 2020.04
    Monte Carlo Algorithms for Connect6
    advisor: Olga Oparina
    • Benchmarked heuristic algorithms for stochastic gameplay modeling and showed Monte Carlo methods outperform classical heuristics

Education

  • 2024.08 - Present

    Minnesota, USA

    Ph.D.
    University of Minnesota Twin Cities
    Computer Science
  • 2019.09 - 2023.06

    Moscow, Russia

    B.Sc.
    Lomonosov Moscow State University
    Computer Science

Publications

Work

  • 2023.09 - 2024.04
    Machine Learning Researcher
    Rotec Digital Solutions, Moscow, Russia
    Developed ML models for anomaly detection in industrial sensor and time-series data for predictive maintenance
    • Integrated models into monitoring pipelines using PyTorch, scikit-learn, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, MLflow, DVC, Airflow, Optuna
  • 2022.04 - 2023.04
    Full-stack Java Developer
    MOLNET, Moscow, Russia
    Implemented backend systems using Java, Spring, JSP, Maven, REST APIs, and PostgreSQL
    • Built web interfaces with React, TypeScript, Bootstrap; used Docker, Git, and Linux in daily development
  • 2022.01 - 2023.03
    Freelance Writer
    JetBrains Academy, remote
    Authored educational modules on probability, statistics, data structures, and algorithms for online CS courses

Skills

Core ML & CV
Computer Vision
Document Image Analysis
Multimodal Learning
Vision Transformers
Layout Understanding
Structured Prediction
OCR/LLM-based Extraction
Machine Learning
PyTorch
scikit-learn
CNNs
Transformer models
Training/evaluation pipelines
Programming
Python
C
C++
Java
SQL

Awards

  • 2022.02.27
    TV NeuroTech hackathon. 1st prize
    Case: to find, formalize and explore the statistical validity of the dependencies of indicators of the quality of life of the population (income, demography, credit burden, etc.) on the indicators of state resource provision | Data: official statistics of the Russian Federation for the last 10-15 years | My task was to detect and clean outliers in the data.

Languages

Russian
Native speaker
English
Fluent
German
Beginner

References

Dr. Yao-Yi Chiang
Ph.D. Advisor | Associate Professor Department of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Minnesota
612-625-4002, email: yaoyi@umn.edu