About Me
I am a Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Tripadvisor, where I work on search models for discovering experiences on Viator. I hold a PhD in Machine Learning from the University of Glasgow, where my research focused on effective and efficient transformer models for sequential recommendation. My broader research interests include recommender systems, information retrieval, and deep learning, and I have authored or co-authored multiple publications in these areas. My PhD was supervised by Prof. Craig Macdonald and Prof. Iadh Ounis.
Before pursuing my PhD, I worked for 12 years as a software engineer, including as a senior software engineer at Amazon.com, where I focused on recommendations, personalization, search, and personalized online advertising. While I was not a researcher at the time, I gained extensive hands-on experience with recommender systems and related technologies.
In addition to my academic and professional work, I have supervised master's student projects on recommender systems at the University of Edinburgh, and have taught machine learning and data analysis in online and offline courses in Russian. In my free time, I enjoy driving around Scotland, studying languages, and reading fantasy books.
Consider emailing me a.petrov.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Research Interests: Search Models, Recommender Systems, Sequence Modelling, Information Retrieval, Deep Learning