Maria Tikhonova is a Senior NLP Research Data Scientist and educator with 10 years' experience building and evaluating large transformer models and applied NLP systems. At SberDevices she worked on Russian SuperGLUE benchmarking, few-/zero-shot evaluation of GPT-style models, and text style transfer for digital assistants, while concurrently leading ML/NLP courses at OTUS and lecturing advanced Transformer courses for SberUniversity and HSE. Her background blends rigorous academic training (PhD-level work in computer science) and hands-on industry production—ranging from resume-parsing pipelines at Sberbank to prototype AI systems in experimental ML teams. She is notable for translating cutting-edge research into teaching curricula and practical evaluation frameworks for HuggingFace models, bridging research, education, and productization in Russian-language NLP.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Специалист, Математика и механика, 5.0, Специалист, Математика и механика, 5.0 at Московский Государственный Университет им. М.В. Ломоносова (МГУ)
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Высшая Школа Экономики
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