Ivan Yamshchikov, Ph.D., associate professor, head of LEYA Lab for Natural Language Processing at Higher School of Economics. St. Petersburg, Russia. He is engaged in popularization of artificial intelligence among technical specialists, industry experts and business audience in Russia and throughout the world. Ivan's research interests include natural language generation, computational creativity and various application of exploratory data analysis. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics at the Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg (Germany). Ivan is a frequent speaker at major professional conferences and forums. He is also one of the co-founders of Creaited Labs, a project that studies intersections of art and artificial intelligence. Together with Alexey Tikhonov, they created the album "Neural defense", consisting of poems and songs written by the neural network in the style of Yegor Letov. Cratied Labs has also produced the Neurona project, in which the neural network generated poetry in the style of Kurt Cobain. Ivan is the author of the podcast "Provertimsya!", where he tells about practical applications of new technologies and scientific results.