My experience combines 6 years as a researcher and 1 year as an AI developer. My Python skills from research made the transition to development easier. Within just a year, I completed three internships and gained exposure to real-world projects. I applied LLMs to generate data, trained and tested models, built AI agents, and I am excited to continue this journey.

Liubov Nesterenko

My experience combines 6 years as a researcher and 1 year as an AI developer. My Python skills from research made the transition to development easier. Within just a year, I completed three internships and gained exposure to real-world projects. I applied LLMs to generate data, trained and tested models, built AI agents, and I am excited to continue this journey.

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My experience combines 6 years as a researcher and 1 year as an AI developer. My Python skills from research made the transition to development easier. Within just a year, I completed three internships and gained exposure to real-world projects. I applied LLMs to generate data, trained and tested models, built AI agents, and I am excited to continue this journey.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate

Language

English
Fluent
Norwegian
Intermediate
Russian
Fluent

Work Experience

AI Engineer, intern at Hybrid
May 1, 2025 - August 26, 2025
Improved the accuracy of the baseline solution from 0.88 to 0.97 by fine-tuning an XLM-mini model for song title matching. Evaluated three approaches to dataset labeling with OpenAI by prompt engineering for musician name matching tasks.
AI Agents Developer, intern at Fitzgerald Change Consulting
February 1, 2025 - August 26, 2025
Implemented a WhatsApp-based AI agent as an automation service for tenant-landlord interactions. Contributed to internal design discussions, assisting leadership in evaluating trade-offs such as processing speed and cost based on client requirements.
AI Engineer, volunteer at Fruit Punch AI, project “AI for Forest Elephants”
July 1, 2024 - August 26, 2025
Improved classification accuracy by identifying an optimal spectrogram chunking strategy for detecting elephant sounds using the DinoV2 model as part of the pipeline.
Senior Lecturer (Substitute for the Semantics Course) at University of Bergen
December 1, 2023 - August 26, 2025
Taught and supervised students during the semester for the semantics course at the University of Bergen.
Data Scientist and NLP Lecturer at National Research University “Higher School of Economics”
January 1, 2022 - August 26, 2025
Designed and taught hands-on NLP and text analytics courses emphasizing interpretable, traditional methods such as logistic regression and core libraries like NLTK and spaCy for text preprocessing. Supervised MA theses for students in the interdisciplinary educational program “Data Journalism.”

Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Data Science for Linguistic Analysis at National Research University “Higher School of Economics”
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2022
MA in Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics at National Research University “Higher School of Economics”
January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2016

Qualifications

Developing Large Language Models skill track, Data Camp
March 1, 2024 - August 26, 2025
OpenAI fundamentals (API, embeddings, prompting), Data Camp
March 1, 2024 - August 26, 2025

Industry Experience

Education, Software & Internet, Non-Profit Organization