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.

Eirini Tsakiri

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.

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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.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate

Language

English
Advanced

Work Experience

Research Assistant at Stockholm University
October 1, 2024 - October 1, 2025
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 at Cerence Inc.
August 1, 2022 - August 1, 2024
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 at ReadSpeaker
December 1, 2021 - September 30, 2022
Conducted meticulous validation of transcription accuracy alongside phoneme-to-grapheme and grapheme-to-phoneme data integrity for English text-to-speech (TTS).
Teaching Assistant at Uppsala University
October 1, 2021 - January 31, 2022
Course support for Natural Language Processing (Machine Learning, NLP, language modeling, probability & statistics, advanced text processing, POS tagging, Hidden Markov Models, syntactic & semantic analysis).
English Language Teacher Trainee at ΠΣΠΘ (Experimental School of Thessaloniki)
February 1, 2019 - May 31, 2019
Trainee English language teacher for ESL courses.
English Second Language Teacher Trainee at ΠΣΠΘ (Experimental School of Thessaloniki)
February 1, 2019 - May 1, 2019
Trainee English teacher supporting language instruction and classroom activities for ESL students.

Education

MA in Language Technology at Uppsala University
January 1, 2022 - December 23, 2025
BA in English Language and Literature at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
January 1, 2020 - December 23, 2025
Erasmus+ Studies at University of Jyväskylä
January 11, 2030 - December 23, 2025
MA in Language Technology at Uppsala University
January 1, 2022 - December 23, 2025
BA in English Language and Literature at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
January 1, 2020 - December 23, 2025
Erasmus+ Studies at University of Jyväskylä
January 11, 2030 - December 23, 2025

Qualifications

Preparing and Responding to Active Shooter Incidents
January 1, 2023 - December 23, 2025
Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)
January 1, 2020 - December 23, 2025
Python Data Structures
January 1, 2020 - December 23, 2025
Using Python to Access Web Data
January 1, 2020 - December 23, 2025
IELTS Academic
January 1, 2019 - December 23, 2025
Preparing and Responding to Active Shooter Incidents
January 1, 2023 - December 23, 2025
Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)
January 1, 2020 - December 23, 2025
IELTS Academic
January 1, 2019 - December 23, 2025

Industry Experience

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

Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate

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