CV

Education

• M.S. in Human Language Technology, University of Arizona, 2025 (expected)
• M.A. in Applied Linguistics and Text Analytics, Higher School of Economics, 2023
• B.A. in Translation Studies, Irkutsk State University, 2020

Relevant Coursework

Information Technology in Translation; Translation of Special Texts; Meaning in Language Analysis; Functional Approaches to Natural Language; Introduction to NLP; Programming in Python; Speech Technology; Computational Linguistics; Statistical NLP; Advanced Computational Linguistics; Data Mining and Discovery; Neural Networks; Data Visualization; Applied NLP; Advanced ML Applications;

Work experience

• November 2024 — April 2025: Large Language Models Intern
  • XRI Global
  • Duties included: Benchmarking LLMs for low-resource languages
• May 2021 — April 2023: Natural Language Processing Engineer
  • A1SolarStore.com
  • Duties included: Designed and implemented a system to automatically generate product descriptions based on specifications Fine-tuned various image and language models to generate images and text in the same unique style the company has developed over the years
• September 2020 — May 2021: Translator
  • Eksmo Publishing
  • Duties included: Translated Karl Deisseroth’s book Projections: A Story of Human Emotions into Russian Translated Peter Hollins’ book Build a Better Brain into Russian

Skills

• Language skills: Russian (Native); English (C2); Spanish (C1)
• Computer skills: Python (Numpy, Pandas, Re, Requests, NLTK, Spacy, Transformers, Scikit-learn, FastAI, H2O, PyTorch, OpenAI Gym, OpenCV, Matplotlib, Seaborn), Perl, Prolog, Git, Docker, AWS

Awards

• January 2025: Edmund S. Muskie Professional Fellowship
• May 2023: Fulbright Foreign Student Grant
• September 2019: Oxford Russia Fund Scholarship
• November 2018: Black Sea International Translation Contest

Service and leadership

• University of Arizona Data Science Club: Participating in workshops and Kaggle competitions