Ivan Gridin is a researcher, author, developer, and artificial intelligence expert who has worked on distributive high-load systems and implemented different machine learning approaches in practice. One of the primary areas of his research is the design and development of predictive time series models. Ivan has fundamental math skills in random process theory, time series analysis, machine learning, reinforcement learning, neural architecture search, and optimization. He has published books on genetic algorithms and time series forecasting. He is a loving husband and father and collector of old math books.