Summary
Ekaterina Svikhnushina is a researcher and Technical Cooperation Manager with 8 years’ experience at the intersection of AI, HCI, and data science, currently leading R&D collaboration at Huawei from Switzerland. She built and led a 4-year interdisciplinary doctoral project at EPFL that produced new evaluation frameworks for social chatbots, supervised multiple master projects, and translated complex experimental designs into published insights. Comfortable with end-to-end study design, crowdsourced data collection, and advanced ML-driven analysis, she has also influenced product strategy through a UX research internship at Google that modeled user delegation to digital assistants from a 3,000-participant survey. Her background in applied mathematics and systems work (rail planning and SDN/NFV requirements) gives her a practical edge in turning theoretical frameworks into production-ready solutions. Colleagues value her user-centered mindset and ability to bridge academic rigor with cross-functional engineering teams.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSс), Applied Mathematics and Physics, with honour, Master of Science (MSс), Applied Mathematics and Physics, with honour at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Lyceum "The Second School"
Doctor of Science, Computer and Communication Sciences, Doctor of Science, Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
Russian, English, French, German