People

Alina Lozovskaya is a practical Data Scientist / Machine Learning researcher at Raft Digital Solutions. In 2020, Alina successfully finished her master's thesis at Ural Federal University. Being an applied linguist, Alina has a strong interest in applying modern Machine Learning methods to work with diverse textual data. She sees her goal in presenting valuable insights that are relevant to both linguistic experts and professionals with a technical background. Currently, Alina is expanding her expertise in Deep Learning techniques and Large Language Models (LLMs).

Preferred tech stack: Python, Pytorch, Scikit-learn, Pandas, Transformers / Hugging Face, Spacy, NLTK, Gensim, NetworkX, Seaborn

Alina loves playing guitar and taking photos in her free time.

Danil Pitolin is an independent researcher based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, previously holding positions of an associate professor at Ural Federal University and an assistant professor at Ural State Pedagogical University.
His research interests include bilingualism, language contact, variation and change, and language attrition. 

Danil sees the mission of the current study of Russian-English bilinguals as not just paying attention to linguistic phenomena that have been overlooked but also giving voices to language attriters and destigmatizing language attrition in particular, as well as any bilingual dynamics.

In his free time Danil explores his ability to play different musical instruments and has moderate ambitions playing the game of go.

Senior Data Scientist \ Senior Vice President at Raiffeisen Bank Russia with 5 years of experience in Data Science, MLops, and AI-driven analytics. Successfully creates complex Data Science projects, advanced analytics, and ML solutions to generate meaningful insights for business operations. In addition, Semyon is involved in training junior staff and has an ability to explain Data Science topics in simple language, offering straightforward solutions to complex technical problems. 

Semyon enjoys taking street photos and run a cooking blog in his free time.

Pavel Averinskii is an undergraduate student in the department of fundamental and applied linguistics at the Ural Federal University. Pavel started as an engineer but found his vocation in linguistics right after he had graduated from a college. Now he actively participates in conferences about language, researches grammatical interference in late Ru-En bilinguals’ speech, helps grannies when they want to cross a road and is just a cool guy. As for his career, Pavel works as a teacher of English, spreads his linguistic knowledge among his students and inspires others to look at their own native language as a good tool to show their intellect. He hopes to write a good detective book so that he will also become famous. 

Olesya is a fourth-year student at the Ural Federal University, named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin, studying fundamental and applied linguistics. She is interested in linguistic interference in late bilinguals’ speech. In her spare time, Olesya enjoys baking, painting with watercolors and doing pottery.

Zakhro Zhianbekhova is a bachelor student in the department of german philology at the Ural Federal University (UrFU). Her primary research interest is language interference and attrition in Russian—Turkish bilinguals speech. Outside of research Zakhro works as an EIC in the islamic publishing house and as a translator from Russian to Turkish and Arabic and from Arabic and Turkish to Russian.

Ekaterina received her master’s degree in philology from the Ural Federal University. She is interested in language contact between English and Russian. Her research is focused on the differences of phonetical aspects of these two languages particularly the voice onset time in the speech of Russian-English bilinguals.