I am currently a Landau AI Fellow at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences (LIMS). Prior to moving to the UK through the Global Talent Visa program, I served as the Scientific Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (AIRI), which is one of the largest AI research organizations in the CIS, employing over 120 researchers across more than 20 projects. At Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), I also lead the Neural Networks and Deep Learning Laboratory.In 2017, I founded the DeepPavlov project with the aim of creating an all-in-one conversational AI framework. This project has since become one of the most popular open-source libraries in its category, boasting over 6,000 stars on GitHub. I have also proposed and co-organized a series of academic Conversational AI Challenges (at NIPS 2017, NeurIPS 2018, EMNLP 2020, NeurIPS 2021, NeurIPS 2022), as well as eight summer schools since 2015.As a leader of a research group, I have co-authored over 100 scientific papers in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning, with a focus on natural language processing, reinforcement learning, and conversational agents. These papers have been published in well-recognized venues. Additionally, I have been invited multiple times to review research proposals for the European Research Executive Agency.At LIMS, I work on three research topics. The first topic is to build a theory and develop models for the open-ended emergence of more and more complex systems. The second topic focuses on modular representation to enable rapid learning and efficient search for solutions. The third topic involves training large DNA language models to understand the language of life and the patterns in DNA sequences.