About

This is a personal site of Aleksey Tikhonov.
I am a lead analyst of the personal recommendation service Yandex.Zen in Yandex, Inc (so called "Google of Russia").
Before that I used to be a head of Yandex Search analysis service, a programmer, a system architect, a pentester, an e-zine columnist, a tech writer, kind of scientist, a marketing specialist and a stock trader, an entrepreneur and an investment business consultant, a dataminer and an infovis creator.
My main interests are:
- Neural networks on discrete domain
- Text parsing / Text generation / Applied natural language processing and AI / Narratology
- Large-scale graph Analysis /Information propagation research
- Distributed computation / Self-organization / Procedural generation
- Information security / System reverse-engineering
- Visualization / Datamining
Feel free to explore some of my past projects, read my personal blog on Medium, check my CV and write back via contacts, .