He has extended industrial research experience in the Help desk automation domain, NLP, Reasoning, Genetic algorithms, concept mining.

Max Talanov is a head of Machine Cognition laboratory at Kazan Federal University (KFU), Russia.

His main research interests are in the area of Neuromorphic computing, Neurosimulaitons, Memristive devices, Neuro-rehablititaion, Cognitive modeling such as artificial consciousness, affective computing, decision-making, artificial thinking, artificial intuition, sleep.