Andrej Kucharavy

Dr. Andrei Kucharavy is an Assistant Professor at the University of Applied Sciences (HES-SO Valais-Wallis). He is the co-founder of the GenLearning Center, an applied research entity focusing on safety and deployment issues of Generative AI technologies. Andrei's research currently focuses on safety, privacy and distribution of machine learning, especially from the cyber-security and human factors perspective. Previously, he was a lecturer and researcher at HEVS, postdoctoral researcher at the Distributed Computing Lab at EPFL and is the second recipient of the "Distinguished Cyber-Defence (CYD) Postdoctoral Fellowship" from Cyber-Defence Campus, armasuisse S+T. He has been working in machine learning since 2013, generative ML since 2018, and the intersection of generative ML and cyber-security since 2020. Andrei earned his PhD from Paris Sorbonne University for work done at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA and Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO, USA and is an engineer of Ecole Polytechnique.