Elena Epure
Researcher at Idiap Research Institute
Paris, Ile-de-France, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolElena 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.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Business Informatics, MSc Business Informatics at Utrecht UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science / Digital Humanities, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science / Digital Humanities at University of Paris I: Panthéon-SorbonnePOLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
Spanish, French, English, Romanian
Github Skills (7)
deezer9
python4
data-efficient3
topic-modeling3
audio1
named-entity-recognition1
ai1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
deezer/muzeeglot
Apr 2020 - Oct 2020
Web interface application to visualize multilingual music genre embeddings and generated cross-lingual music genre annotations for Wikipedia music entities (artists, bands, albums, tracks).
Contributions:8 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
extended-abstractdeezerjep-taln2020
elenavepure/deezer.github.io
Mar 2022 - Oct 2025
Research team website
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 7 months
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