Kukharenko Artyom Igorevich

Kukharenko Artyom Igorevich

Artem Igorevich Kukharenko (February 13, 1990) - founder of NTechLab.

Biography

Artem Kukharenko graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University, where he graduated from the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics. He worked as a student at the Laboratory of Computer Graphics and Multimedia of Moscow State University.

2013 - began collaborating with the e-Lab of the American University of Purdue.

2014 - Artem Kukharenko became an employee of the Moscow Research Center Samsung. At the same time, he acted as the author of a number of scientific articles on the topic of neural networks.

2015 - Artem Kukharenko founded NTechLab, a company that develops algorithms that combine the experience of human intelligence and high machine efficiency. In the same year, the startup won the World Facial Recognition Championship The MegaFace, organized by the University of Washington.

2016 - on the basis of the NTechLab algorithm, the FindFace service was launched, which searches for people by photos on the VKontakte social network.

In 2017, according to Bloomberg, the facial recognition system used by video cameras in Moscow was built on the basis of N-Tech.Lab technologies. Read more about the project here. A similar project started in St. Petersburg (more).

In 2018, NtechLab sold a minority stake to the Ruben Vardanyan Foundation and Rostec subsidiary RT-Business Development.

In 2020, when the Emirati investment fund Mubadala and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) also became NtechLab investors, the founders lost a controlling stake in the company.

In 2021, after the next investment round, the shares of the founders in the company eroded and became smaller than the size of the blocking package.

As a result, in December 2021, the co-founder of the company, Alexander Kabakov, left the board of directors of NtechLab. Soon after him, the head of the laboratory of neural networks Artem Kukharenko left the organization.

In July 2022, the founders of the Russian artificial intelligence company NtechLab, Alexander Kabakov and Artem Kukharenko, resigned due to disagreements with management and investors. This became known on March 30, 2023. Read more here.