Nikita Kozodoi

Awards & Certifications

Hackathons, awards, and more

Awards

Recognition, awards, and other achievements

🏆 EURO Award - Best EJOR Paper 2025
Association of European Operational Research Societies
Awarded for the paper on Fair ML in Credit Scoring
🚀 Recognition of high-quality, impactful work
📚 Published in the top-tier OR journal
⚖️ Addresses critical issues in fair ML
🥇 Kaggle Competition Master
Kaggle: ML and Data Science Community
Top-1% Kaggle user across all categories. Highest ranks:
🏆 Competitions Master: 289 out of >200K users
📊 Notebooks Expert: 324 out of >50K users
📁 Datasets Expert: 75 out of >8K users

Certifications

Certifications, nanodegrees and courses

AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
AWS Certified AI Practitioner
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
AWS Certified Developer - Associate
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification

ML Competition Medals

Top-ranked solutions in Kaggle competitions

Cassava Leaf Disease Classification
🥇 Gold Medaltop-1%
Identified sick plants with deep learning
Code
SIIM-ISIC Melanoma Classification
🥇 Gold Medaltop-1%
Trained CNNs for skin lesion classification
BMS Molecular Translation
🥈 Silver Medaltop-5%
Built CNN-LSTM for image-to-text translation
PLAsTiCC Astronomical Classification
🥈 Silver Medaltop-5%
Identified astronomical objects by their signals
PetFinder Pawpularity Contest
🥈 Silver Medaltop-4%
Predicted pet adoption from image and tabular data
Google Analytics Customer Revenue Prediction
🥈 Silver Medaltop-2%
Predicted customer spendings