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Hi👋, I’m Hanna Shcharbakova, an ML Engineer & NLP Researcher interested in multilingual NLP, fact-checking, explainability, responsible AI, and AI safety. I recently completed my double MSc degree in Erasmus Mundus European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies at University of Saarland 🇩🇪 and University of Lorraine 🇫🇷, and had exchange studies at University of Groningen 🇳🇱.
I obtained my BA in Fundamental and Computational Linguistics at HSE University where I worked in 2 research labs: the Learner Corpora Lab and Laboratory of Methods for Big Data Analysis. During my master’s, I worked as an ML Engineer at Transcrime on EU-funded projects focusing on fake news detection, illicit firearms trafficking, and terrorist content identification online.
🚨 I’m actively looking for PhD and job opportunities! 🚨
News 📌
2025-08: 🎓 Invited to the EM LCT Summer School to share my experience studying at this program with LCT students!
2025-08: 💥 Delighted to share that Cross-Lingual Fact Verification: Analyzing LLMs Performance Patterns Across Languages accepted at RANLP 2025. See you in Bulgaria! 🇧🇬
2025-07: 🎓 Graduated from University of Saarland with an excellent grade of 1.5!
2025-07: ✈️ Attended the ACL 2025 to present my research - incredible insights and networking opportunities!
2025-07: 🏆 Thrilled to receive a fully funded grant to attend the EEML Summer School and honored to receive the Best Poster Award!
2025-06: 🎤 Selected for oral presentation at ACL FEVER Workshop 2025 for When Scale Meets Diversity: Evaluating Language Models on Fine-Grained Multilingual Claim Verification. Achieved new state-of-the-art results with 57.7% macro-F1 using XLM-R - a 15.8% improvement over previous best!
2025-05: 🏫 Selected to participate in the M2L Summer School!
2025-04: 🏆 Excited to share that our team achieved remarkable results in the SemEval Mu-SHROOM shared task, placing in the top 10 across 9 language tracks for hallucination detection, including 2nd place for Mandarin Chinese! Our paper was also accepted for publication!
2025-02: 🎓 Successfully defended my thesis at University of Saarland and received a 1.1 grade!
2025-02: 🚀 Completed major milestone in ALLIES project - our real-time terrorism content detection system is now successfully deployed. We presented the results at a conference in Spain!
2024-12: 🇳🇱 Completed my Dutch course at A2 level at University of Groningen!
2024-11: 📊 Started working on a SemEval shared task at University of Groningen!
2024-10: 🤝 Partnered with a startup to improve AI-generated text detection for the community!
2024-09: 🎓 Started Erasmus+ exchange at University of Groningen, Netherlands. Grateful for the Erasmus+ and Santander Scholarships supporting this academic journey.
2024-09: 🏫 Attended Athens NLP Summer School - amazing learning experiences!