Biography

Dr. Konstantin Bauman joined the Fox School on a tenure track appointment within the Department of Management Information Systems on January 1, 2018.

He arrives at Fox from the Stern School of Business at New York University, where he served as a postdoctoral research fellow. Bauman’s research interests lie in the areas of technical information systems, with focus on the fields of quantitative modeling and data science. In particular, he works on developing novel machine learning methods for predicting customer preferences, and designing novel approaches to recommender systems that provide personalized advice to customers.

Before joining NYU, Bauman worked as the head of a machine-learning group within the research department of Yandex, where he dealt with large-scale machine learning and data science problems on a daily basis. He also served as a software engineer at Yandex and the Russian Academy of Foreign Trade.

Bauman received his PhD in Mathematics (Geometry and Topology) from Russia’s Moscow State University, where he also earned a Master of Science degree in Mathematics. He also obtained a Master of Science degree in Machine Learning from a joint program between the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the Yandex School of Data Analysis in Russia.