Nikoletta Ventoura
Senior Conversation Designer
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNikoletta Ventoura is a Senior Conversation Designer and linguist with eight years’ experience building data-driven conversational AI across research labs, startups and big tech. She blends hands-on dialogue engineering, user research and SQL-based evaluation to iterate voice agents—most recently leading UX research and product strategy for clinical assistant Dora at Ufonia and now designing conversations at Tesco. Comfortable bridging research and product, she has launched content-detection models at Google, contributed to multilingual dialogue projects and shipped production conversational features informed by large-scale annotation and user testing. Known for spotting subtle patterns in interaction data, she turns linguistic insight into measurable product decisions and enjoys sharing learnings at conferences and meetups.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Philology/Linguistics, 8.58/10 (First-Class Honours), Bachelor's degree, Philology/Linguistics, 8.58/10 (First-Class Honours) at National & Kapodistrian University of AthensMaster of Philosophy - MPhil, Speech and Language Processing, Distinction, Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Speech and Language Processing, Distinction at Trinity College Dublin31st European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, 31st European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information at Latvijas UniversitateSummer School of Linguistics, Summer School of Linguistics at University of Crete
English, Greek, French, Spanish, German
Github Skills (41)
javascript10
corenlp10
artificial-intelligence9
named-entity-recognition9
python9
natural-language-processing9
segmentation9
parsing9
documentation9
nlp9
lexicon8
deep-learning8
top2vec8
bert8
machine-learning8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vistamou/vistamou.github.io
Jan 2022 - Feb 2026
Contributions:185 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
vistamou/hurtlex
Jul 2024 - Jun 2025
A multilingual lexicon of words to hurt.
Contributions:3 pushes in 10 months
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