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Mikhail Burtsev

Scientific Advisor & Research Program Chair

Mikhail Burtsev defended his PhD thesis at the M. V. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics. He has worked on modeling the evolution of behavior, neuro-evolutionary architectures, and studies of primary neuronal cultures. In his Neural Networks and Deep Learning Laboratory at MIPT, the first Russian-language language model RuBERT was trained, and the popular open-source library for conversational AI systems, DeepPavlov, was developed. Since its founding, Mikhail has served as Director of Fundamental Research at the AIRI Institute, where he took part in the project to train the DNA language model GENA-LM. He is currently a Landau AI Fellow at the London Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

Sarah Braid

Partner & Advisor

Sarah Braid is a global executive and AI ethics scholar with over 20 years of leadership experience at Accenture across the Asia–Pacific region. Holding Master’s degrees in Artificial Intelligence & Ethics and Organisational Coaching, she brings expertise in governance, technology ethics, and evidence-based coaching. Her academic work explores transformer-based neural networks for structured decision-making, with emphasis on faithfulness, transparency, and ethical deployment. As a Partner & Advisor at Cognia AI Lab, Sarah supports strategic guidance, ecosystem development, and ethical approaches to knowledge systems and decision support.

Alexey Makin

CEO & Partner