Igor Gridchyn, PhD

Production AI for pharma,
Brain-Machine Interface,
and algorithmic crypto trading

I built the first brain‑machine interface to selectively erase hippocampal memories during sleep. Today I design and ship AI systems for large pharma at TetraScience, and run my own algorithmic crypto trading bot and newsletter as pet projects

Currently at TetraScience · open to senior & lead applied‑AI roles, advisory work, and investment in my projects. Get in touch →

Published · peer-reviewed
01 · Long-form

BMI Research

An interactive walk through ten chapters of computational neuroscience — place cells, replay, real-time decoders, optogenetics, the works. Built to be read.

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02 · Interactive paper

The Persistence of Vision

An interactive deep‑dive into my computer‑vision paper — stereo depth, graph cuts, and a divide‑and‑conquer trick that cracks an NP‑hard labeling problem ten times faster. Built to be played with.

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Building now · live
03 · Live system

Igor's Cryptotrading Bot

An end‑to‑end crypto trading system — a per‑second market firehose folded into candles and ~190 features, models tracked in MLflow, and a strategy placing live orders on Binance. The prediction feed is running right now.

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04 · Weekly

Igor's AI in Pharma Newsletter

Weekly intelligence on AI reshaping pharma and biotech — for the people making the decisions. Short, opinionated, written from inside the field.

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About · get in touch
05 · Track record

CV

Sixteen years across academia and industry. AI for pharma at TetraScience, postdoc and PhD at IST Austria, Viewdle (acquired by Google), Google Summer of Code.

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06 · Direct line

Contact

Open to senior IC and lead roles in applied AI or investment in my projects, plus collaborations and advisory work. Drop a message — I read every one.

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Frequently asked

Who is Igor Gridchyn?
Igor Gridchyn, PhD is an AI architect at TetraScience building production ML for pharma and biotech, the author of the first brain‑machine interface to selectively disrupt hippocampal memory replay during sleep (Neuron, 2020), and the creator of a live crypto‑trading system and a weekly AI‑in‑pharma newsletter.
What was his PhD about?
At IST Austria (Csicsvari lab) he built a closed‑loop system that decoded in real time which memory a sleeping rat was replaying and silenced the replaying neurons with an optogenetic laser — causing a specific, selective memory deficit. The full ten‑chapter interactive story is here.
What does he work on now?
At TetraScience he designs and ships ML models that tackle bioprocessing bottlenecks for large pharma — including predictive models for clone selection and stability in biologics manufacturing. Outside work he runs a live algorithmic trading system and writes a weekly newsletter on AI reshaping pharma.
How can I get in touch?
Via the contact page or directly at [email protected]. Open to senior IC and lead roles in applied AI, advisory work, and research collaborations.