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Eirini Tsakiri

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I am a linguist and data scientist specializing in natural language processing, machine learning, and building scalable NLP solutions.

About

I am a linguist and data scientist specializing in natural language processing, machine learning, and building scalable NLP solutions. I have hands-on experience with research, data engineering, and deploying language models, with a passion for turning complex data into actionable insights.

I am eager to collaborate across academia and industry, translate theoretical concepts into practical tools, and continue advancing responsible AI, cross-linguistic NLP, and user-centered language technologies.

  • 4 years' experience
  • Joined December 2025

Industry experience

  • Education
  • Software & Internet
  • Professional Services
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Other

Work experience· 6 roles

Research Assistant · Stockholm UniversityOct 2024 – Oct 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

Research on socio-economic and political topics, including media accessibility and the impact of political narratives. Worked with large datasets; used Python, Pandas, LightGBM, EconML, HuggingFace, etc. Created and optimized ML workflows, web scraping, and performed text analysis with large language models.

NLU Developer · Cerence Inc.Aug 2022 – Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Remote development and maintenance of grammars, utterances, and utterance libraries to craft cutting-edge conversational language models. Localized and expanded a broad range of automotive industry-specific utterances, ensuring cultural relevance and precision. Resolved QA-identified bugs, boosting performance and accuracy of NLU models.

Computational Linguist · ReadSpeakerDec 2021 – Sep 2022 · 10 mos

Conducted meticulous validation of transcription accuracy alongside phoneme-to-grapheme and grapheme-to-phoneme data integrity for English text-to-speech (TTS).

Teaching Assistant · Uppsala UniversityOct 2021 – Jan 2022 · 4 mos
English Second Language Teacher Trainee · ΠΣΠΘ (Experimental School of Thessaloniki)Feb 2019 – May 2019 · 4 mos
English Language Teacher Trainee · ΠΣΠΘ (Experimental School of Thessaloniki)Feb 2019 – May 2019 · 4 mos

Education· 6

MA in Language Technology · Uppsala University2022 – 2025
BA in English Language and Literature · Aristotle University of Thessaloniki2020 – 2025
Erasmus+ Studies · University of Jyväskylä2030 – 2025
MA in Language Technology · Uppsala University2022 – 2025

Certifications and awards· 8

Preparing and Responding to Active Shooter Incidents2023 – 2025
Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)2020 – 2025
Python Data Structures2020 – 2025
Using Python to Access Web Data2020 – 2025

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