Irina Nikishina
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Hamburg
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolIrina Nikishina is a postdoctoral NLP researcher with 11 years of experience bridging computational linguistics and data-driven language technologies, currently based at Universität Hamburg. She holds a PhD from Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and advanced degrees in computational linguistics and applied linguistics, bringing deep expertise in distributional semantics, NER, entity linking/disambiguation, dialogue systems, topic modeling, and taxonomy construction. Known for clear communication and fluency in several foreign languages, she thrives in collaborative academic and cross-cultural environments while delivering high-quality results with minimal supervision. Her career spans research roles at Skolkovo and the Institute of System Programming (RAS), combining theoretical rigor with applied system development. Colleagues note her resilience to criticism and consistent motivation to push research from conceptual models toward reproducible, deployable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational and Data Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational and Data Science and Engineering at Skolkovo Institute of Science and TechnologyMaster's degree, Computational linguisitcs, Master's degree, Computational linguisitcs at National Research University, Higher School of Economics
Github Skills (40)
machine-translation10
named-entity-recognition10
in-progress10
machine-learning10
language-processing10
datasets10
natural-language-processing10
nlp10
bert9
python8
wordnet8
acl8
nmf8
scientific-publications8
taxonomy7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lilaspourpre/nnlp-cl-2022
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:61 commits, 57 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
skoltech-nlp/diachronic-wordnets
Nov 2020 - Jul 2021
Code and datasets related to the COLING-2020 paper "Studying Taxonomy Enrichment on Diachronic WordNet Versions"
Contributions:56 commits, 50 pushes in 8 months
nlpstudyingcoling-2020colingwordnet
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