Research profile ❧ AI × Plant Pathology

Nikita S. Kolesnikov

Колесников Никита Сергеевич

PhD student at Volgograd State Technical University. I work on AI methods for plant disease diagnosis that survive the journey from the lab to the field — and fit on a device you can hold in one hand.

Research

Lab-to-field domain adaptation

CORAL, CW-CORAL, DANN and CDAN for plant disease recognition when training images come from the lab and real leaves come from the field.

Model compression & quantization

Stage-wise attribution of accuracy loss in compression pipelines; INT8 post-training quantization; ~10× feature database compression without retrieval loss.

Edge deployment

Running diagnosis on Raspberry Pi-class hardware: latency budgets, hardware benchmarking infrastructure, deployable models under 3 MB.

Explainable AI

Grad-CAM and SHAP explanations for diagnosis models, aimed at decisions an agronomist can actually check.

Publications

In press

Kolesnikov N. S., Kravets A. G.

A System Model of Edge Plant Disease Diagnosis: 10× Feature Database Compression Without Loss of Retrieval Accuracy

Системная модель edge-диагностики заболеваний растений: 10-кратное сжатие базы признаков без потери точности поиска

SEDM-2026 conference proceedings · accepted, in press, 2026

Education

2024 — 2027
PhD student, specialty 1.2.1 (Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning)
Volgograd State Technical University · Department of Computer-Aided Design and Search Construction Systems · advisor: Prof. Alla G. Kravets, Dr. Sc.
2022 — 2024
Master's degree, 09.04.03 Applied Informatics
Volgograd State Agrarian University · Department of Information Systems and Technologies
2018 — 2022
Bachelor's degree, 09.03.03 Applied Informatics
Volgograd State Agrarian University · Department of Information Systems and Technologies

Employment

2025 — now
Lead Engineer (QA & analysis)
Volgograd Region Information Technology Center · Volgograd
2025
System Analyst
Volgatrans VLG · Volgograd · Jun — Aug 2025
2025
PHP Developer
clickon · Feb — May 2025
2021 — 2024
IT Specialist, Department of Development and Implementation of the University System
Volgograd State Agrarian University · Dec 2021 — Jul 2024