About
About the author
Vinum ex Machina is written and maintained by Nikita Khudov, DipWSET — a wine expert, founder of the W4U wine club, and an AI practitioner working at the intersection of wine and applied artificial intelligence. The site is deliberately a one-person publication: editorial voice, benchmark methodology, and technical infrastructure all sit under a single hand, which keeps the perspective coherent as the corpus grows.
Wine credentials
Section titled “Wine credentials”- WSET: Level 4 Diploma in Wines (DipWSET), Level 2 Award in Beer, Level 1 Award in Sake
- Italian Wine Scholar (in progress) · Chianti Classico Expert
Competitions
Section titled “Competitions”- Semi-finalist (top 30) of the Moscow Sommelier Cup
- Participant of the Russian Sommelier Competition
Publications
Section titled “Publications”- Author of Vinum ex Machina — this project, on AI and wine
- Articles and research notes on wine
Experience
Section titled “Experience”- 500+ wine events hosted · 3 000+ wines tasted
- Founder of the W4U wine club
AI background
Section titled “AI background”- Executive Director, Sber AI Transformation Centre
- Visiting lecturer at HSE ICEF — Artificial Intelligence and Its Prospects in the Global Economy (ICEF Summer School)
- Bachelor’s degree, HSE International College of Economics and Finance (2016)
- Previously Senior Associate Consultant at Bain & Company
Articles, benchmark entries, and essays are drafted in Markdown and committed directly to the project’s Git repository, so every revision is visible in the public history and every page can be traced back to a specific commit. Contact links and external profiles will be added here as the project matures.