Sergei Masliukhin is a Lead Researcher at STC-Innovations, a position held since 2019. Sergei received his PhD from ITMO University (Saint Petersburg) in 2025, following the completion of his Master's degree at SPbSUT (The Bonch-Bruevich Saint Petersburg State University of Telecommunications) in 2016. His professional interests include artificial intelligence and natural language processing, specifically focusing on text retrieval and the development of embedding models.