Nikita Koval
JetBrains
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Nikita is a researcher in the Kotlin team and has been getting a Ph.D. in the field of concurrency. His primary research interests are, but not limited to, concurrent data structures and algorithms, their verification, and practically applicable code analysis. He is also a frequent speaker at JPoint and Joker conferences.