Maria Zorkaltseva

Machine Learning Engineer · Paris, France

14+ years of experience in applied AI across healthcare, cybersecurity, IoT/RF sensing. I design and deploy end-to-end ML systems - from research prototyping to production at scale. Author of 19 peer-reviewed publications.

🧩 Current R&D & Projects
- LLM Engineering - Fine-tuning with LoRA/QLoRA, RAG, LangGraph agent orchestration, MCP integrations
- Wi-Fi CSI / RF Sensing - Activity recognition and indoor localization
- Medical Imaging - WSI pathology pipelines: segmentation, tiling, RLE encoding, UNet architectures
- Physics-Informed ML - PINNs for biomechanical modeling, Koopman operator + Transformer hybrids
- Data Engineering - Streaming pipelines, BigQuery, dbt, Kestra, dlt

🔬 Research & Industry Interests
- Edge AI & IoT: on-edge intelligence, distributed IoT systems, sensor-driven applications
- HealthTech & BioTech: histology, radiology, medical imaging, AI for personalized medicine, drug discovery and investigation, multimodal biological data
- Multi-Omics & Computational Biology: integrating genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and other biological signals
- Cybersecurity: fraud detection, account takeover prevention, malware detection, adversarial ML
- LegalTech: NLP for legal documents, semantic search, knowledge extraction
- Quantitative Engineering: time series modeling, optimization, stochastic calculus, derivative pricing models, portfolio optimization
- Chess: Stockfish's heuristics, AlphaZero’s neural networks, analytics and AI chess coaching