Resume
Education
- Ph.D in Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020 - 2025 (exp.)
- Graduate Program in Management Practice Certificate, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2023
- M.A. in Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2022
- UC Inter-Campus Exchange Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 2021
- B.A. in Linguistics, HSE University, 2020
Work & Research Experiences
- Amazon Alexa AGI, Summer’24
- Knowledge Engineer Intern, Info Entertainment Team (returning)
- Amazon Alexa AI, Summer’23
- Knowledge Engineer Intern, Info Entertainment Team (returning)
- University of California, Santa Barbara, Spring’23
- Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Computer Science
- Advisor: Xifeng Yan
- Amazon Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge 5, Fall’22-Spring’23
- Team Member, GauchoChat Team
- Advisor: Xifeng Yan
- Amazon Alexa AI, Summer’22
- Knowledge Engineer Intern, Info Entertainment Team
- University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall’21 - Present
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Linguistics
- Courses: LING 15, LING 20, LING 70, LING 102, LING 110
- University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall’21 - Present
- Graduate Student Researcher, CPLS Lab, TRILL Lab, PRPL Lab
- Advisors: Simon Todd,Lal Zimman, Laurel Brehm
Professional Development
- Product Inclusion & Equity Summit, Google, 2023
- PhD Fellowship Summit, Google Research, 2023
- Computer Science Research Mentorship Program, Google Research, 2023
- Grace Hopper Celebration 2022 Conference, 2022
- Product Management for Linguists, Linguistics Career Launch & Google, 2021
- Linguistics Career Launch, 2021
Skills
- Expertise: Conversational AI, Research, Product Management
- Programming: Python (NLTK, PyTorch, pandas, Tensorflow), R, Markdown, SQL, HTML, git, LaTeX.
- Data skills: prompt engineering, data collection, annotation, processing and visualization, statistical analysis, experimental design, survey design, eye-tracking.
- Project skills: project management, technical product management, customer research, quantitative & qualitative research.
- Languages: English (near native), Russian (native), French (fluent), Spanish (intermediate), Czech (intermediate), Hebrew (beginner).
