Alëna Aksënova
Founder, CEO at PLATE
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlëna Aksënova is a founder and former Google TPM with nine years of experience building production ML and speech systems and leading cross-functional releases for Gemini and speech products. She holds a PhD in Computational Linguistics from Stony Brook and has led evaluation pipelines, dashboards, and novel data‑collection approaches to improve model quality and coverage. Now CEO of PLATE, she’s turning messy kitchen state into actionable meal decisions with step‑by‑step guidance, combining product instincts with deep language-and-speech expertise. Her background spans research, teaching, and production engineering—she once turned speech features into live dialect isogloss maps—and she brings both academic rigor and programmatic discipline to startup execution in San Francisco.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics at Stony Brook University
Russian, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
phonetics10
language-processing9
nlp8
natural-language-processing8
camp8
artificial-intelligence7
performance-tuning6
perf6
python4
math2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
stonybrook-lin537-f19/main
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:82 commits, 79 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
alenaks/SigmaPie
Jul 2017 - Jul 2020
Subregular toolkit for language processing
Contributions:182 commits, 5 PRs, 178 pushes in 3 years
nlplanguage-processingphoneticsnatural-language-processingartificial-intelligence
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