Bio

I am a historian, digital humanist and information engineer, for many years I've been studying how people acquire, organise and represent knowledge, and working to help people and organizations to do this better. 

I obtained a Master's degree in Political Science from the Russian State University for Humanities in 2007, and then worked in industry and non-profit as an analyst and communication officer. After moving to Italy in 2011 I founded a small IT-company with my partner, where I was responsible for the implementation of open source software in ERP/reporting, visual communication and web-design.  Together we also developed and ran a series of courses on computational thinking and digital technologies for creativity and work.

In 2021 I went back to academia and earned a Master's degree in Digital Humanities from the University of Pisa, where I studied computational semantics and graph knowledge representation. My thesis was dedicated to building an exploration-first multidimensional model for the description of architectural archives.  

I am currently a 2nd year PhD student at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pisa. My current research lies at the intersection of computer science and humanities: I am trying to understand how interaction with AI-based tools affects human reasoning and why. I am also interested in how developments in the formal learning theory and ubiquitous application of machine learning changes our notions of what constitutes  sound theories.