Svitlana Vakulenko
Assistant Professor, Tenure Track at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolSvitlana Vakulenko is an Assistant Professor (tenure track) at WU Vienna leading a research group on Knowledge Representation Learning for Large Language Models, combining academic rigour with applied ML research. With a PhD from TU Wien and over 11 years of experience across academia and industry, she has shaped conversational search and LLM evaluation methods during roles at University of Amsterdam and Amazon AGI. Her work spans topic modeling, NLP for social media and question rewriting to production-focused LLM workflows, and is supported by a WWTF VRG grant of over €1.5M. She brings a rare blend of deep research expertise and hands-on engineering—optimizing training and decoding algorithms to boost semantic diversity in generated text. Based in Vienna, she is also an active ML scientist working on conversational search and building bridges between knowledge representation and practical LLM evaluation.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyBachelor, Informatics, Bachelor, Informatics at Kyiv National Economics UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Universität des SaarlandesMaster of Science (MS), Software Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Software Engineering at Tartu Ülikool
English, Russian, Ukrainian, German, Spanish
Github Skills (61)
knowledge-graph10
question-answering10
nlp10
dbpedia9
sentence-transformers9
ubuntu9
corpus9
heterogeneous8
datasets8
benchmark8
retrieval8
graph7
phonetics7
semantic7
natural-language-processing7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
svakulenk0/svakulenk0.github.io
Sep 2018 - Jan 2024
my new website
Contributions:1 PR, 134 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
svakulenk0/KBQA
Aug 2018 - Aug 2021
Complex Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs
Contributions:1402 commits, 1 PR, 1222 pushes in 3 years
nlpquestionknowledgeknowledge-graphgraphs
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