Nikita Lukianets is a Founder and CTO at PocketConfidant AI that designs, develops, and deploys automatically generated coaching conversations to help people live and work better together. Before starting PocketConfidant, he received a highly competitive fellowship from SIGNALIFE Ph.D. program in life sciences and worked on supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms for neuronal classification, bridging approaches in neurobiology and statistical learning. Nikita is also a founder and researcher at Open Ethics initiative that fosters the inclusive dialogue between experts and citizens to design systems where humans and AI successfully work together. Nikita Lukianets has more than ten years of experience in Human-Computer Interaction. During his professional career in the technology sector, he has partnered with multiple organizations to help them build human-centered interfaces. He has been an active contributor to French and Ukrainian User Experience communities, focusing on the topics of usability and Natural User Interfaces. While working in Microsoft at Developer and Platform Evangelism Division, Nikita was leading a startup support program helping young technology companies to develop their products for scale. Nikita received an MBA in innovation management from Politecnico di Milano School of Management and M.Sc. in Applied Physics from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
