Curriculum vitae
Education
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2021 - 2026 PhD in Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Thesis: Advances in Probability and Statistics Using AI Methods and Agents
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2019 - 2021 Master's degree in Mathematics
Faculty of Mathematics, HSE University, Moscow - My term paper On existence of measure with given marginals supported on a hyperplane won first prize in the HSE University Student Research Paper Competition.
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2019 - 2021 Master's degree in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow -
2015 - 2019 Bachelor's degree in Mathematics
Faculty of Mathematics, HSE University, Moscow - Diploma with the Highest Distinction
- Thesis: Duality Theory for Multistochastic Monge-Kantorovich Problem
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2017 - 2019 Professional retraining diploma
Department «Computer science», Yandex School of Data Analysis, Moscow - 672 lecture hours on a broad range of theoretical and applied Computer Science
Experience
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2026 - -
2025 Machine Learning Research Intern
Tilde Research -
2018 - 2021 Research Assistant
HSE University, Moscow -
2019 Trainee Researcher
Huawei Moscow Research Center, Moscow, Russia - Fine-tuned face recognition models for smartphones, adapting them to the European market.
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2018 Software Engineering Intern
Yandex, Moscow - Worked on backend API development for advertising algorithms.
Publications
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2026 Bond percolation does not simulate site percolation
Nikita Gladkov and Aleksandr Zimin- Electronic Communications in Probability
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2025 The bunkbed conjecture is false
Nikita Gladkov, Igor Pak, and Aleksandr Zimin- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Recipient of the 2026 Frontiers of Science Award (ICBS)
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2025 -
2025 Learning Gaussian Mixture Models via Transformer Measure Flows
Aleksandr Zimin, Anastasiia Kutakh, Yury Polyanskiy, and Philippe Rigollet- Methods and Opportunities at Small Scale (MOSS) Workshop, ICML 2025
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2022 The multistochastic Monge–Kantorovich problem
Nikita A. Gladkov, Alexander V. Kolesnikov, and Alexander P. Zimin- Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
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2020 An explicit solution for a multimarginal mass transportation problem
Nikita A. Gladkov and Alexander P. Zimin- SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
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2019 On multistochastic Monge-Kantorovich problem, bitwise operations, and fractals
Nikita A. Gladkov, Alexander V. Kolesnikov, and Alexander P. Zimin- Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations
Preprints
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2026 YuriiFormer: A Suite of Nesterov-Accelerated Transformers
Aleksandr Zimin, Yury Polyanskiy, and Philippe Rigollet- arXiv: 2601.23236
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2022 Bunching and Taxing Multidimensional Skills
Job Boerma, Aleh Tsyvinski, and Alexander P. Zimin- NBER Working Paper 30015
- Revision in progress for Econometrica
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2022 Beckmann's approach to multi-item multi-bidder auctions
Alexander Kolesnikov, Fedor Sandomirskiy, Aleh Tsyvinski, and Alexander P. Zimin- arXiv: 2203.06837
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2020 On existence of measure with given marginals supported on a hyperplane
Alexander P. Zimin- arXiv: 2010.07263
Skills
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Programming Languages
- C++
- Python
- Julia
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Numerical Methods
- Linear programming
- Numerical methods for PDEs and IEs
- Computer algebra
- Optimization algorithms
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Machine Learning
- Deep learning (PyTorch, TensorFlow)
- Transformers and large language models (LLMs)
- AI agents and AI-assisted mathematical discovery
- Reinforcement learning
- Bayesian methods
- Computer vision
Honors and Awards
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Research Awards
- Frontiers of Science Award, International Congress of Basic Science, for The bunkbed conjecture is false, 2026
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Programming Contests
- World Finalist, ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, team HSE Bluebell, 2018
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Mathematical Competitions
- Silver Medal, International Mathematical Olympiad, 2015
- Gold Medal, Romanian Master of Mathematics, 2015
- Gold Medal, China National Mathematical Olympiad, 2013
- Prize-winner, All-Russian Mathematical Olympiad, 2011–2015