Summary
Elena E is a researcher and group leader with 11 years of experience at the intersection of NLP, recommender systems and information retrieval, currently heading the Language & Information Technologies group at Idiap. Her career blends applied industry research—senior roles at Deezer solving product-facing NLP/RecSys challenges—with academic teaching and PhD supervision at Université Paris 1, reflecting strong communication skills in both English and French. She holds a PhD in Computer Science/Digital Humanities and a background in business informatics, enabling her to bridge rigorous research, product impact, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Notably, she has moved from building practical search and classification systems in industry to leading scientific teams that publish and mentor, combining hands-on engineering roots with strategic research leadership.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Business Informatics, MSc Business Informatics at Utrecht University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science / Digital Humanities, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science / Digital Humanities at University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
Spanish, French, English, Romanian