Nikita Toropov

School of Computer Science

Research and Teaching Assistant

N.Toropov@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 215 8571

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Nikita Toropov
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
Profile

Nikita Toropov is a Research and Teaching Assistant at the School of Computer Science, where he is also pursuing a PhD under the supervision of Maksim Zhukovskii. Prior to this, he worked as a teaching assistant at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, while also being a research associate at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.

He obtained his MSc in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science and BSc in Systems Analysis and Control at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and his MSc and BSc in Economics at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.

Research interests

  • Random graphs
  • Probabilistic and extremal combinatorics
  • Probability theory
  • High-dimensional statistics
  • Causal inference