Valeriia Blinova
Applied Scientist at Oracle
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolValeriia Blinova is an applied scientist and AI leader with a decade of experience building production NLP and information retrieval systems, currently at Oracle after founding and scaling Tinkoff’s NLP department. She combines hands-on model development and training with strategic leadership—managing 40+ engineers, launching the Oleg voice assistant used by 17M+ users, and driving a support chatbot to become the bank’s primary channel and top-ranked product. Her background spans high-throughput news-monitoring systems and fintech ML platforms, delivering measurable impact like a 36% accuracy boost and multi-million-dollar monthly savings. A PhD in IR and two Best Paper Awards underscore her research rigor, while her practical work in deep learning architectures (DSSM, ELMo, BERT) keeps her firmly grounded in state-of-the-art engineering.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General, GPA: 4.9, Master's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General, GPA: 4.9 at Ural Federal UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at RMIT University
Github Skills (8)
chardet4
utilities2
python2
entity1
nlp1
information-retrieval1
entity-linking1
retrieval1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Lurunchik/NF-CATS
May 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Lurunchik/WikiHowQA
Jan 2022 - Jul 2023
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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