Nikita Pavlichenko

Nikita Pavlichenko is Head of Mellum at JetBrains, leading the team behind the company's open-source, code-specialized language models. He is the senior author of the Mellum2 and lead developer of Mellum's production code-completion pipeline in JetBrains IDEs. Previously an LLM alignment researcher at Toloka with publications at NeurIPS and SIGIR, he holds an MSc in CS and is based in Berlin.