Jelena Prokic
Assistant Professor at Leiden University - Faculty of Humanities
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJelena Prokic is an Assistant Professor at Leiden University with 13 years of experience at the intersection of computational linguistics, digital humanities, and NLP-driven data science. Her work spans machine learning, natural language processing, GIS and data visualization, grounded in a PhD in Computational Linguistics from the University of Groningen and prior research positions in German academia. She has a strong practical background in web mining, database and Linux administration, and building tools for under-resourced languages, dialect classification and phonetic alignment. Known for combining rigorous algorithmic methods (Bayesian inference, clustering, string alignment) with applied digital humanities questions, she frequently bridges theoretical work and reproducible computational pipelines. Based in Leiden, she brings both deep research expertise and hands-on engineering experience to interdisciplinary projects that require scalable, linguistically informed data solutions.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Computational Linguistics, MA, Computational Linguistics at University of TübingenPhD, Computational Linguistics, PhD, Computational Linguistics at University of Groningen
Serbian, English, Chinese, Dutch, German, Italian
Github Skills (1)
python9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
LeidenHuman/LeidenHuman.github.io
Nov 2023 - Sep 2025
Contributions:56 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 11 months
jprokic/HTH_2019
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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