Liisa Rätsep
Head Of Applied Natural Language Processing
Estonia
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Top SchoolLiisa Rätsep is Head of Applied Natural Language Processing at the University of Tartu with nine years of experience bridging research-grade NLP and production tooling. She combines a strong academic trajectory—currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science after completing a master's and a bachelor's in English—with hands-on engineering roles where she built monitoring and automation solutions for operational teams. Liisa has moved from programmer-level NLP work into leadership, coordinating cross-functional projects that translate linguistic research into deployable systems and in-house developer tools. Her background in English literature gives her an unusual edge in linguistically informed model design and evaluation, while her time in industry honed pragmatic skills in monitoring, process definition, and automation. Based in Estonia, she is known for integrating rigorous research methods with practical engineering to improve language technologies used in real-world settings.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Rhodes CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Tartu
English, Estonian, Russian, German
Github Skills (37)
nmt9
queue8
speech8
machine-translation8
transliteration8
translation8
text-based7
speech-synthesis7
api7
speech-to-text7
nlp7
rest-api6
rest6
synthesis6
message-queue6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TartuNLP/text-to-speech-api
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
REST API for neural text-to-speech synthesis
Contributions:12 releases, 35 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 4 months
apispeech-to-textsynthesisspeech-recognitionspeech-synthesis
TartuNLP/MemoQ-Neurotolge-Plugin
Mar 2020 - Jul 2022
Plugin using Neurotõlge Machine Translation in MemoQ
Contributions:6 releases, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 4 months
machine-translationtranslationneuralnatural-language-processinglge
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