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I am an enthusiastic AI Master's student with a solid foundation in machine learning and a passion for collaborative teamwork. I enjoy leveraging my diverse skill set to contribute to data-driven decision-making and process improvements while continuously exploring innovative technologies in data science and software engineering. With hands-on experience in NLP, reinforcement learning, and computer vision, I have applied my skills in various domains including financial services and legal text analysis. I am always eager to learn and take on new challenges in the AI and data science fields.…I am an enthusiastic AI Master's student with a solid foundation in machine learning and a passion for collaborative teamwork. I enjoy leveraging my diverse skill set to contribute to data-driven decision-making and process improvements while continuously exploring innovative technologies in data science and software engineering. With hands-on experience in NLP, reinforcement learning, and computer vision, I have applied my skills in various domains including financial services and legal text analysis. I am always eager to learn and take on new challenges in the AI and data science fields.

Kristina Minkova

Data Scientist, AI Engineer, AI Prompt Engineer, +2

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I am an enthusiastic AI Master's student with a solid foundation in machine learning and a passion for collaborative teamwork. I enjoy leveraging my diverse skill set to contribute to data-driven decision-making and process improvements while continuously exploring innovative technologies in data science and software engineering. With hands-on experience in NLP, reinforcement learning, and computer vision, I have applied my skills in various domains including financial services and legal text analysis. I am always eager to learn and take on new challenges in the AI and data science fields.…I am an enthusiastic AI Master's student with a solid foundation in machine learning and a passion for collaborative teamwork. I enjoy leveraging my diverse skill set to contribute to data-driven decision-making and process improvements while continuously exploring innovative technologies in data science and software engineering. With hands-on experience in NLP, reinforcement learning, and computer vision, I have applied my skills in various domains including financial services and legal text analysis. I am always eager to learn and take on new challenges in the AI and data science fields.

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I am an enthusiastic AI Master’s student with a solid foundation in machine learning and a passion for collaborative teamwork. I enjoy leveraging my diverse skill set to contribute to data-driven decision-making and process improvements while continuously exploring innovative technologies in data science and software engineering.

With hands-on experience in NLP, reinforcement learning, and computer vision, I have applied my skills in various domains including financial services and legal text analysis. I am always eager to learn and take on new challenges in the AI and data science fields.

Skills

Experience Level

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Expert

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Language

English

Advanced

German

Advanced

Bulgarian

Fluent

Work Experience

Data Scientist at Postbank (Eurobank Bulgaria AD)

September 30, 2024 - July 21, 2025

Developed univariate and multivariate logistic regression models in Python and SAS for default rate prediction of SMEs using their transactional and application data. Optimized algorithms for feature engineering such as WoE binning and coarse classing in Python and SQL. Improved team's efficiency by automating the calculation of credit scores, delinquencies, 12-month default rates, and other data preparation tasks on datasets loaded monthly, reducing processing time from ~2-3 days to 1 hour 40 minutes.

Data Management Specialist at Atos Bulgaria

January 31, 2022 - July 21, 2025

Collected, protected, and organized data in SAP S/4 HANA systems (ERP and CRM). Investigated and resolved master data issues including service, incident, and change requests.

NLP Research Intern at Brightlands Institute for Smart Society

August 31, 2023 - July 21, 2025

Learned NLP techniques from scratch including embedding methods (TF-IDF, BoW, Word2Vec, GloVe, transformer-based) and tokenization using Spacy, Keras, NLTK and Gensim. Investigated prompt engineering and OpenAI for synthetic legal text generation in low-resource settings. Optimized text classification of EU documents using cosine similarity with TF-IDF/LegalBERT, data augmentation, CNN, BiLSTM, and BERT architectures.