Igor Slinko obtained a Master's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science at MIPT (Moscow). After that, he worked as C++ and Python developer at Yandex. Several years later he turned his attention to Data Science and Computer Vision. He switched to a researcher position at Mail.ru, and also started teaching Machine Learning at HSE (Moscow). Then he became team lead at a newly developed Samsung AI Center, where he developed Computer Vision algorithms in Robotics. He also collaborated with Michael Romanov to create an open course called "Neural Networks and Computer Vision" which amassed an audience of 50k students.