Nikita Puchkin

Education and Degrees

2023

Candidate of Sciences* (PhD)
HSE University

2022

Doctoral programme in Mathematics and Mechanics
HSE University

2018

Master's in Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

2016

Bachelor's in Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

* Candidate of Sciences
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.

Professional Interests

Statistical learning theory high-dimensional probability and statistics analysis and design of machine learning algorithms online learning

Courses (2025/2026)

Advanced Statistics 2 (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Computer Science field of study Applied Mathematics and Information Science; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Advanced Statistics 2 (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Computer Science field of study Applied Mathematics and Information Science; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Advanced Statistics 2 (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Computer Science field of study Applied Mathematics and Information Science; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Mathematical Statistics 1 (advanced course) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Computer Science field of study Applied Mathematics and Information Science; 2 year, 4 module)Rus
Past Courses

Timetable for today

Full timetable

Dissertation for a Candidate of Sciences degree

2023
N. Puchkin Построение оптимальных оценок с помощью метода адаптивных весов в задачах обучения с размеченными и неразмеченными данными

Conferences

2018
12th International Vilnius Conference on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics and 2018 IMS Annual Meeting on Probability and Statistics (Вильнюс). Presentation: Pointwise adaptation via stagewise aggregation of local estimates for multiclass classification (poster presentation)

27

Jul

2026

Speed, Precision, and Self-Correction: HSE Faculty of Computer Science Researchers at ICML-2026

Researchers from the HSE Faculty of Computer Science (FCS) presented their work at theInternational Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026) in Seoul, South Korea, one of the leading scientific events in the field. Several projects by the faculty’s researchers received the prestigious Spotlight distinction.

10

Jun

2022

HSE Faculty of Computer Science and Skoltech Hold Math of Machine Learning Olympiad 2022

HSE's Faculty of Computer Science and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology have held the Mathematics of Machine Learning Olympiad for the fifth time. The participants competed for prizes and the opportunity to matriculate at two universities without exams by enrolling in the HSE and Skoltech joint master's programme in Math of Machine Learning.

19

Jul

2018

HDI Lab staff attend International Vilnius Conference on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics 2018

12th International Vilnius Conference on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics and 2018 IMS Annual Meeting on Probability and Statistics took place in Vilnius (Lithuania) on July 2-6. This is one of the world's leading conferences in the field of modern probability theory and mathematical statistics, which is held every four years since 1973. This year over 200 works were presented at the event and 500 participants from all over the globe attended it.