Bio for China students meeting in Saint-Petersburg, Russia
My name is Nikolay. I was born in Saint Petersburg, in 1982. I was graduated from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University in 2003 and now I am system lead architect, primarily working with line-of-business applications. I am a tech enthusiast and can’t live without learning something new. My main points of interest now is my family (wife and little daughter), Rubik’s cube and Chinese language. As for today, I can solve Rubik’s cube for 20 seconds and pass HSK level 2 exam, so there is much room for improvement. I love China and Chinese culture. I have been to China a few times and really fall in love with this country. I have a friend from China who helping me to learn Chinese, but I mostly do it by textbooks. As part of activity, I want to show how modern information technologies can be helpful in art. I want to introduce neural networks algorithm, which can separate style and content of images and apply style of one image to content of another. In intercultural exchange context, it can provide some visual concepts of culture and styling fusion between Russia and China. So, by mixing the IT and art we can better understand culture of each other. I hope it will be interesting.
