maksym bondarenko

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we taught magic sand to do linear algebra and now it can think (maybe)

"went from ai agnostic to ai religious" - people after talking to me

Hi! I am Maksym, currently a Computer Engineering student at Columbia University, coming from Kyiv, Ukraine.

I am passionate about AI, hardware, startups and deep tech.

Previously, I have started Pravopysnyk, AI grammar correction service for Ukrainian, published research, and worked on cool hardware projects.

Currently exploring LLM memory and AI tools for hardware engineering, and thinking about ways to productize general robotics

Life updates

November 2024 Became Neo scholar for 2025 cohort!

August 2024 Completed computer vision internship at a robotics startup
as where I was one of the first 30 employees

July 2024 Presented EraseDraw research at AI4CC workshop at CVPR

Jan 2024 Won 10000$ prize at NYC hackathon organized by Sebastian Thrun

Oct 2023 Won Harvard Hack with Giraffe.ai

August 2023 Completed collaboration with Melanie Subbiah on long document summarization

May 2023 Won Best Paper Award at Ukrainian NLP workshop at EACL2023 for work on Ukrainian Grammar Correction

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