Viktor Pekar
Senior Lecturer at Aston University
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolViktor Pekar is a Senior Lecturer and researcher with 13 years of experience bridging academic research and industry practice in data science, machine learning and natural language processing. He teaches and supervises across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes while leading research in computational social science and NLP at Aston University. His background includes applied NLP roles in industry—building multilingual entity and sentiment extractors, event extraction for financial news, and lexicographic corpus tools—demonstrating a strong track record of turning linguistic research into production systems. Viktor’s technical toolkit spans Python, Java, C#, ElasticSearch and web stacks, with hands-on experience in information extraction, ontology learning and econometric text analysis. He combines a PhD in linguistics with a PGCert in higher education, enabling effective translation of complex research into teachable modules and practical solutions. Notably, his work has supported multilingual applications (including Chinese and several European languages) and large-scale lexicographic efforts for Oxford Dictionaries Online.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PGCert in Higher Education Learning and Teaching, Higher Education/Higher Education Administration, Distinction, PhD, Linguistics, Lexical Semantics, PGCert in Higher Education Learning and Teaching, Higher Education/Higher Education Administration, Distinction, PhD, Linguistics, Lexical Semantics at Aston University
English, Russian, German
Github Skills (50)
data-analysis10
lstm-neural-networks10
python10
data-science10
scikit10
statistics10
machine-learning10
scikit-learn10
arima9
sarimax9
nlp8
turkish8
time-series-forecasting8
fairness-ml8
natural-language-processing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vpekar/stanford-parser-in-jython
Sep 2012 - Jan 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 2 pushes, 1 issue in 2 years 4 months
skyttle/sentiment-evaluation
Sep 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:15 commits in 4 months
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