Victor Kantor

Victor Kantor was born in 1992, graduated with honors at MIPT — Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, the Department of Data Analysis (the basic organization – Yandex).

Since 2011, Victor was engaged in data analysis and machine learning within various projects, and in 2012 he taught first as a teacher assistant, then held laboratory courses and subsequently lectured in data analysis courses.

In 2016, Victor co-developed the series of the most popular Data Analysis courses on Coursera attracting 30 thousand students around the world.

Additionally Victor developed a course for "Data mining in action" at MIPT which became one of the most popular offline course on machine learning in Russia, attracting more than 600 participants.

Victor worked as a data analysis specialist and as teacher for companies in different sectors (IT, retail, telecom) including Yandex, ABBYY, Sberbank Technologies, Megafon, 585gold, TSUM and others. Currently Victor works as researcher in Yandex and as a teaches at MIPT as well as an instructor and trainer for the master classes on machine learning within various companies.