
Dr. Mikhail Burtsev is Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer at Sentius, a pioneering autonomous AI agents platform built to revolutionize enterprise productivity and business process automation.
Dr. Burtsev earned his PhD in computer science from the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics and studied microelectronics at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, before holding senior research roles at the Anokhin Institute of Normal Physiology and the Kurchatov Institute.
He served as Scientific Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute in Moscow and led the Neural Networks and Deep Learning Laboratory at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), where he founded the award-winning open-source conversational AI framework DeepPavlov.
Dr. Burtsev is also a Landau AI Fellow at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences (LIMS), and has authored over 100 machine learning and AI papers published in top venues including Nature, NeurIPS, ACL, and ICML.
The open-source AI products his teams built have accumulated 722K+ installs, 6,700+ GitHub stars, 105K+ NLP model downloads, and 1M+ DockerHub pulls, cementing his legacy as a foundational figure in conversational and agentic AI.
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