Alexander Bondarenko
Coordinator, Digital Innovation Hub
Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolAlexander Bondarenko is a coordinator and data scientist with nine years of experience bridging academic research and applied AI, currently leading digital innovation at VolkswagenStiftung. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has driven NLP, information retrieval and computational argumentation projects as a postdoc and researcher focused on medical chatbots and question-answering systems. Alexander specializes in building retrieval-augmented generative AI, with hands-on work to reduce hallucinations, improve response quality, and design rigorous evaluation pipelines. His background spans both research and operational roles—translating cutting-edge IR/NLP methods into efficiencies for institutional workflows. Fluent in Russian and English and experienced across academia and industry, he combines deep technical rigor with practical product-minded delivery.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat. (PhD), Computer Science, Dr. rer. nat. (PhD), Computer Science at Friedrich Schiller University JenaLanguage Translation, Language Translation at Institute of the World Economy and InformatizationDiploma, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Diploma, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at South Russian State Technical University (Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute)MSc, Computer Science and Digital Media, MSc, Computer Science and Digital Media at Bauhaus-Universität WeimarRussian summer school in information retrieval
English, Russian, German
Github Skills (22)
evaluation10
llm9
application9
data-structures8
fine-tuning8
vector-database8
gpt7
redis6
llmops5
commons4
emr4
retrieval3
web-application3
datasets3
machine-learning2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
webis-de/WSDM-20
Oct 2019 - Oct 2022
WSDM 2020 Code and Data
Contributions:3 PRs, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
commonswsdmemr
webis-de/wsdm22-towards-understanding-and-answering-comparative-questions
Feb 2022 - Aug 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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