Alisa Zhila
Applied Scientist II at Amazon
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlisa Zhila is a Data Scientist with a decade of experience building applied AI/ML systems for e-commerce, search, and conversational QA across leading tech companies. She has designed end-to-end evaluation frameworks and productionized models—ranging from multilingual RoBERTa-based answer quality predictors in Alexa to CNN classifiers that recover null-search results at Target. At Amazon she led query understanding efforts, creating multilingual evaluation pipelines for conversational signal and brand detection that directly informed production improvements. Her background bridges rigorous NLP research (PhD in NLP) and hands-on engineering, with early work in vision and fact extraction at IBM and practical NLP internships at Microsoft, Yahoo, and Oracle. Based in California, she combines deep error-analysis and data-centric iteration with scalable deployment experience across seven-plus locales. Less obvious: she pairs semantic-clustering approaches from computer vision with NLP evaluation design, yielding cross-modal insights that improve model robustness.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, certificates with honors, Computer Science, certificates with honors at CourseraThe National Polytechnic Institute of MexicoComputer Science, Computer Science at UdacityMS, applied phys and maths, MS, applied phys and maths at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)1416
English, Russian, Spanish, German
Github Skills (41)
nlp9
speech-recognition8
ibm-watson8
clustering8
python8
deep-learning8
natural-language-processing8
machine-learning8
pytorch8
ibm-cloud8
gradle7
nearest-neighbors7
similarity7
tensorflow7
sdk7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alisatl/solr_nesting
Apr 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
alisatl/alisatl.github.io
Aug 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:8 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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