Elena Kochkina is an NLP researcher and AI leader with eight years of experience focused on combating online misinformation and broader online harms using deep learning. She combines academic rigor—PhD from Warwick and postdoctoral work at Queen Mary and Warwick—with industry impact as AI Research Lead (VP) at JPMorgan Chase and a Visiting Lecturer at UCL teaching AI in Healthcare. Her research emphasizes model generalisability and explainability, aiming to make cutting-edge methods reliable and actionable in real-world settings. Elena has collaborated with The Alan Turing Institute and bridges theory and practice, moving prototypes toward production-ready solutions in high-stakes domains. Notably, her background in complex systems and applied mathematics informs a systems-thinking approach to adversarial and societal challenges in NLP.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Master's degree Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at State University of Nizhni Novgorod named after N.I. Lobachevsky (UNN)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of Warwick
Master's degree Complex Systems, Master's degree Complex Systems at Chalmers University of Technology
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