Anna Potapenko
Research Engineer at DeepMind
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAnna Potapenko is a Research Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience at the intersection of language and biology, currently contributing to DeepMind’s research efforts. She combines a strong academic background—a PhD in Natural Language Processing and a Master’s in Computer Science from MSU—with hands-on industry work in ML and NLP from internships at Google and a data analytics role at Yandex. Her work spans interpretable neural networks, NLP for ads and assistant systems, and applied machine learning pipelines, reflecting both research rigor and production-minded engineering. Comfortable moving between theory and implementation, she has a track record of turning complex language models into interpretable, usable systems. Colleagues describe her as quietly effective: she prefers email over social media for professional contact and focuses on delivering substantive technical results.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Natural Language Processing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Natural Language Processing at Higher School of EconomicsLomonosov Moscow State University
Github Skills (18)
machine-learning10
language-processing10
deep-learning10
natural-language-processing10
nlp10
regularizer10
text-mining9
python-api8
topic-modeling8
crossword8
latent-dirichlet-allocation7
lda7
python7
modeling6
heroku4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AnyaP/apotapenko.com
Jun 2015 - Mar 2022
Personal resume/portfolio website
Contributions:41 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 10 months
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AnyaP/bigartm
Sep 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:33 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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