Yury is a graduate of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). After obtaining the Candidate of Sciences degree in discrete mathematics, he joined INRIA Rhone –Alpes and Grenoble Alpes University, France, as a postdoctoral researcher and turned his interest to statistical machine learning and optimization. Today, his research interests and experience include discrete mathematics, huge-scale convex optimization, statistics and statistical machine learning, as well as their engineering. Throughout his career, Yury always showed a deep appreciation of fundamental knowledge and strong practical motivation. He was a Team Lead and PI of multiple industrial projects on huge-scale optimization for telecommunication and railways networks. Prior to joining Skoltech, Yuri was an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), MIPT Department of Control and Applied Mathematics, and a Research scientist at the Institute for Information Transmission Problem RAS (IITP RAS).