Education
MIPT
Teaching
Moscow Region Design School 2024 — teacher
Intensive program to prepare for the regional stage of the Big Challenges of 2025 - teacher
Moscow Region Design School 2025 — Head
Mentoring and project management at the Sirius IT Summer Internship in 2025
Intensive program to prepare for the regional stage of Big Challenges in 2026 — Head
March educational program in computer Science of the Sirius Educational Center, preparation for the Higher School of Economics in AI 2026 — teacher
Research Interests
Decentralized optimization, zero order methods,
LLM agents
Awards and Recognitions
ICOMP’25 Honourable Mention at "ai4opt" competition
Публикации
Irina Podlipnova, Maxim Mashtaler, Artem Agafonov, Yuriy Dorn, Alexander Gasnikov. Smooth or Separable? Sparse Block Acceleration for Entropy-Regularized Linear Programs (2026). arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.32558.
Yury A. Sokolov, Maxim K. Mashtaler, Alexander V. Gasnikov, Martin Takáč, Dmitry I. Kamzolov, Artem D. Agafonov. Application of Optimal Inexact Second-Order Acceleration to Distributed Stochastic Optimization under Statistical Similarity (2026). arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.21878.