Elena Nazarenko Ph.D.

Head of Language Technologies @ Witty Works

    Elena is currently working as a Senior Data Scientist at Witty Works. She primarily leads and works on Natural Language Processing (NLP) development. Elena is building a writing assistant, Witty, for inclusive language. She has experience across the entire product cycle - from ideas to developing MVP and the solution, engaging with clients, leading a team of developers, and communicating with stakeholders. Prior to Witty Works, Elena worked as a Data scientist consultant on NLP-related projects (tech-support chatbot, unstructured text search, customer review classification). Before NLP development, Elena worked as a researcher at the Paul Scherrer Institute (ETH-domain). Her background includes a Ph.D. in Computational Physics from the University Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France, as well as ongoing training in data science, machine learning algorithms, and machine learning pipelines on cloud platforms. She has ten years of experience using Python in research and commercial projects.