Background

Education 👩‍🎓

2022.09-2025.09: Language and Communication Technologies, Double M.Sc., Erasmus Mundus European Masters Program (2.5% acceptance rate). University of Lorraine, Nancy, France (2022-2023) & Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany (2023-2025). Supervised by Prof. Dr. Josef van Genabith: Advancing Multilingual Fact Verification with LLMs and Data Augmentation.

2024.09-2025.01: Language Science and Technology, Erasmus+ Exchange, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.

2017.09-2021.08: Fundamental and Computational Linguistics, B.A., Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. Supervised by Dr. Olga Vinogradova: Comparison of Text Complexity Evaluation Carried Out with Different Methods across Learner Texts in English.

Jobs 👩‍💻

2023.07-2025.01: ML Engineer @ Transcrime Joint Research Centre on Innovation and Crime, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy (remote).

• EU Horizon, FERMI Project: Fake news detection across multiple languages
• EU Horizon, CEASEFIRE Project: Predictive modeling for illicit firearm trafficking
• EU Internal Security Fund, ALLIES Project: Real-time terroristic content detection system deployed in EU police departments

2019.09-2022.07: NLP Researcher @ Higher School of Economics, Laboratory of Corpus Linguistics and Laboratory of Methods for Big Data Analysis, Moscow, Russia.

• Code4ML dataset creation: 2.5M annotated Python code snippets with novel ML taxonomy (80+ categories), classification and generation of code chunks. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Andrey Ustyuzhanin
• Statistical analysis on large-scale text corpora (200+ linguistic features), predictive modelling based on ML. Supervised by Dr. Olga Vinogradova and Prof. Dr. Olga Lyashevskaya

Research Focus & Impact 🔬

Multilingual NLP, Fact-Checkig, AI Safety, LLMs Evaluation, Responsible AI

• 8 peer-reviewed publications at ACL, RANLP, SemEval, PeerJ Computer Science
• State-of-the-art results: 57.7% macro-F1 in multilingual fact verification (15.8% improvement)
• First benchmarks: Russian hate speech detection in dialogues, Russian AI-generated text detection
• Real-world deployment: Terrorism detection system used by EU law enforcement

Awards & Recognition 🏆

2025: Best Poster Award + Fully funded grant, EEML Summer School

2024-2025: Erasmus+ and Santander Scholarships, University of Groningen

2022-2024: Erasmus Mundus Scholarship (15 selected from 600+ applications)

2024: Attended leading NLP/ML summer schools Athens NLP, LxMLS, ALPS

Languages 🌍

Russian (Native), Belarusian (Native), English (C1), Italian (C1), French (B1), Dutch (A2), German (A1)