.\" vladimir(7). Made from the web page by mk7.mjs; do not edit by hand.
.TH VLADIMIR 7 2026-11-11 osipov.cc "My CV, set as a software manual page"
.SH NAME
vladimir osipov \- co-founder of Excession Labs, mathematics student at
UCL
.SH DESCR[AEXMH
.TP 14
.B NOW
I co-founded Excession Labs.
Our AI agents test the security of a client's systems.
.TP 14
.B BEFORE
I co-founded Project25.
We signed a US$350,000 financing agreement.
.TP 14
.B WON
Our team of three won the AI Engine hackathon, among more than 200
participants.
.TP 14
.B STUDY
Mathematics and Statistical Science at UCL, to June 2027.
.SH EXHY&CO#LM
.SS Excession Labs
.I co-founder, October 2026 to now
.PP
A security lab.
Our AI agents attack a client's systems, with permission, and find the
weak points. excessionlabs.ai
.IP \(bu 2
We also make AI models run 4 to 10 times faster on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs.
LLM inference.
AMD Instinct MI350X/MI355X.
.PP
Penetration tests, security audits, AI red teaming.
.SS Project25 Inc.
.I co-founder, May 2025 to October 2026
.PP
An autonomous system that made, published and measured content on real
devices. project25.live
.IP \(bu 2
I incorporated the company.
We signed a US$350,000 financing agreement with HomeDAO in December 2025.
A SAFET.
.IP \(bu 2
I ran the AI image generation on rented GPUs and fixed its start-up
faults.
ComfyUI on Runpod.
Cold starts, CUDA.
.IP \(bu 2
From September 2026 we worked with YourEra (US) on adverts made by users,
and measured which adverts brought sales.
.SS ReflectAI
.I co-founder, February to March 2025
.PP
Three of us built an AI agent that spoke with a company's customers by
phone.
It won the AI Engine hackathon.
.IP \(bu 2
After the win we had investor conversations with Bessemer Venture Partners
and Zero Prime.
.SS P10Y
.I productivity research, January to July 2025
.PP
I did customer research for P10Y, which studies the productivity of
software engineers: lists of target companies, and scorecards for local
businesses.
.IP \(bu 2
I worked with Yegor Denisov-Blanch (Stanford Software Engineering
Productivity study), under a P10Y NDA.
.SH AWARDS
.SS AI Engine: UK University Hackathon
.I London, February 2025
.PP
Overall first place, and first place in workplace automation, with team
ReflectAI.
More than 200 participants from UCL, Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial.
.PP
Prize:
NVIDIA H200 GPU access.
.TP 7
.B ETH Oxford.
Third-place prize from Ava Labs, US$800, with team NLWallet.
February.
(2025)
.TP 7
.B AI for Good hackathon.
Second place.
Eurasian Hub, November.
(2024)
.TP 7
.B School olympiads, Russia.
Prize winner, National Data Analysis Olympiad (DANO).
Certificate of honour, National Mathematics Olympiad.
.TP 7
.B Other hackathons.
2024 to 2025:
EasyA × Stellar, AI Builders (Eurasian Hub), Imperial and UCL Hack, EF
Hack.
.SH PROJECTS
.TP 7
.B NewtonCards.
An AI flashcard platform, 2024 to 2025, built in the UCL AI Foundry
incubator (Cohort 3).
(2024)
.TP 7
.B StellaRamp (github.com/alygg77/StellaRamp).
Moves money from African mobile wallets to the Stellar blockchain.
Built at the EasyA × Stellar hackathon.
Rust, Svelte.
(2024)
.TP 7
.B Rattleback (github.com/alygg77/Rattleback).
An app that models the rattleback, a top that spins one way only.
(2023)
.TP 7
.B Smaller projects.
A campus-tours app on the App Store (code
(github.com/alygg77/CampusTourApp)), a Python app that finds leads on the
web, and a script that trades on the news.
.SH EDUCATION
.SS University College London
.I London, UK, expected June 2027
.PP
BSc Mathematics and Statistical Science, third year.
.SS Moscow State School 57
.I Moscow, Russia, June 2024
.PP
Mathematics track with accelerated studies.
GPA 4.8 of 5.
.IP \(bu 2
In 2023 I was a senior volunteer teacher there.
I taught evening mathematics classes, ran the annual geometry test and
wrote two inter-school olympiad problems.
.SS IMS School
.I Limassol, Cyprus, June 2024
.PP
International A Levels:
A*A*A.
I taught myself Mathematics, Further Mathematics and Economics.
.IP \(bu 2
MAT, the mathematics admission test of the University of Oxford:
78 of 100 (exam only).
.SH RESEARCH
Five working papers for AAAI-27 workshops.
I am writing three more.
.IP \(bu 2
AI judges give higher scores to longer forecasts, not to more accurate
ones.
(Longer, Not Better, PDF , no workshop yet)
.IP \(bu 2
When an AI model plays a person, its answers change at the wrong times.
(Simulated Users Get the Time Course Wrong, CALE-AI)
.IP \(bu 2
A forecast shows what comes with an action, not what the action causes.
(When Is a Known Future Covariate an Intervention?, PDF , AI4TS)
.IP \(bu 2
An AI model trained before the Iran war reads the President's posts on it.
We test its reading against the oil price 10 minutes later.
(Reading the President's Iran-War Posts with a Pre-War-Cutoff LLM, PDF ,
FinFM)
.IP \(bu 2
AI bank-support agents follow their written procedure even when a step in
it is unlawful.
(The Procedure Comes First, PDF , FinFM)
.SH NOTES
I write them to check that I understand a thing.
.SS But do LLMs think?
.I 8 November 2024
.PP
I rephrased standard coding tasks and tested GPT-4 again: does it solve
them, or remember them?
.SS Elliptic Curves in 5 minutes
.I 6 October 2024
.PP
How adding points on a curve gives you keys and signatures.
.SS zk-SNARK: QAP
.I 5 August 2023
.PP
How an equation becomes a proof that hides its inputs.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.TP 14
.B LANGUAGES
English (fluent, TOEFL 107), Russian (native).
.TP 14
.B PROGRAMMING
Python, C++, Swift, LaTeX.
Beginner:
Golang, R, Rust, machine learning.
.TP 14
.B TOOLS
OpenAI, ElevenLabs and Twilio APIs, Next.js, Flask, Selenium, ComfyUI,
serverless GPU (Runpod).
.TP 14
.B INTERESTS
Debating (UCL Debating Society), sports, crypto and blockchain,
travelling, politics, hackathons, venture capital.
.SH CONTACT
.TP 14
.B MAIL
vladimir@osipov.cc
.TP 14
.B GITHUB
github.com/alygg77
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.B LINKEDIN
linkedin.com/in/vladimir-osipov123
.SH BUGS
Probably some, in the code of this page.
If you find one, please tell me.
.SH SEE ALSO
less(1), man(7), mandoc(1)
.PP
The same page with its figures: osipov.cc
.SH COLOPHON
The web page at osipov.cc draws the name and a model of the rattleback.
This file has the text only.
.TP 14
.B NAME IN DOTS
A Metropolis-Hastings sampler with 40 chains.
.TP 14
.B SPINNING TOP
A rigid ellipsoid that rolls and does not slip (Kane and Levinson, 1982),
with friction.
Fourth-order Runge-Kutta, 1,200 steps a second.