Kirill Vishniakov

AI Engineer @ Ruya AI

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My name is Kirill, and I’m currently an AI Engineer at Ruya AI. Before that I worked as a Research Engineer for AI in Genomics at M42, a global tech-enabled healthcare company, developing genomic foundation models.

I obtained MSc in Computer Vision at MBZUAI, where I worked with Dr. Zhiqiang Shen and Prof. Eric Xing. During my time at MBZUAI I was also fortunate to work with Dr. Zhuang Liu from Meta AI Research.

Aside from my academic pursuits, I sometimes participate in different machine competitions and achieved rank of a Kaggle Competition Master.

selected publications

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    BioToken and BioFM - Biologically-Informed Tokenization Enables Accurate and Efficient Genomic Foundation Models
    Aleksey Medvedev, Karthik Viswanathan, Praveenkumar Kanithi, Kirill Vishniakov, Prateek Munjal, Clément Christophe, Marco AF Pimentel, Ronnie Rajan, and Shadab Khan
    bioRxiv, 2025
    bioRxiv Code
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    Genomic Foundationless Models: Pretraining Does Not Promise Performance
    Kirill Vishniakov, Karthik Viswanathan, Aleksandr Medvedev, Praveenkumar Kanithi, Marco AF Pimentel, Ronnie Rajan, and Shadab Khan
    bioRxiv, 2024
    bioRxiv Code
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    ConvNet vs Transformer, Supervised vs CLIP: Beyond ImageNet Accuracy
    Kirill Vishniakov, Zhiqiang Shen, and Zhuang Liu
    In ICML, 2024
    arXiv Code Project Page Twitter
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    Initializing Models with Larger Ones
    Zhiqiu Xu, Yanjie Chen, Kirill Vishniakov, Yida Yin, Zhiqiang Shen, Trevor Darrell, Lingjie Liu, and Zhuang Liu
    In ICLR, Spotlight Top 5%, 2024
    arXiv Code