Kirill Vishniakov

Research Engineer - AI in Genomics at M42

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My name is Kirill, and I am currently a Research Engineer for AI in Genomics at M42, a global tech-enabled healthcare company. At M42 my main focus is on developing genomic foundation models. Prior to this, I obtained MSc in Computer Vision at MBZUAI, where I worked in the Center of Integrative Intelligence (CIAI) 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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    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