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Nina Lopatina

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Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Head of Innovation

Nurdle
Remote
09.2023 - 03.2024
  • Tech: Led synthetic data initiatives with an emphasis on model and data evaluation
  • Sales engineering: Signed the first paid pilot customer in addition to managing the deliverable
  • Evangelism: Moderated or was a panelist in 4 events that I organized across 4 cities and started planning a deeplearning.ai short course

Director of Data Science

Spectrum Labs
Remote
04.2022 - 09.2023
  • Managed a team that developed and maintains solutions for content moderation across platforms and clients such as social, gaming and dating apps
  • Coordinated with our Data Operations team
  • Developed a novel approach to machine labeling and synthetic data generation to improve model performance
  • Facilitated hiring top talent for 3 openings

VP, Data Science at IQT Labs

In-Q-Tel
Menlo Park, CA
11.2020 - 04.2022
  • Managed timely completion of 5 collaborative projects across 8 direct reports
  • Worked across diverse deep learning research domains: ensemble system for deepfake detection, multimodal identity intelligence, robust models via GAN-enhanced synthetic data, image geo-localization
  • Briefed mission partners and executive staff
  • Coordinated the interview process and hired top talent for two open roles

Senior Data Scientist at IQT Labs

In-Q-Tel
Menlo Park, CA
04.2020 - 11.2020
  • Led a 4-member project team in developing an SBERT claim-matching system for scaling fact-checking around COVID.
  • Briefed several groups on our results, including mission partners, executive staff, and a workshop presentation by a team member

Data Scientist at IQT Labs

In-Q-Tel
Menlo Park, CA
10.2018 - 04.2020
  • Led a project in Russian-English machine translation quality estimation, contributing a novel dataset and manuscript to the WMT workshop at EMNLP
  • Contributed to a system investigating model security

Education

Ph.D. - Neuroscience

University of Maryland, Baltimore
Baltimore
12-2015

Bachelor of Arts - Behavioral Biology

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
05-2006

Skills

Languages & Packages

  • Python
  • Numpy
  • Pandas
  • Sklearn
  • PyTorch
  • Transformers
  • OpenAI API
  • Git

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Technical domains

  • Language modeling
  • Generative AI
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Machine Translation
  • Content moderation
  • Multilingual language modeling
  • Synthetic data
  • Machine data labeling
  • Model evaluation
  • Data quality

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Non-technical skills

  • Recruiting, leading, and managing teams
  • Product - PMF, GTM strategy
  • Evangelism: Blogs, talks, events, courses
  • Sales engineering

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Human language proficiency

  • fluent in English and Russian
  • conversational in French
  • basic Spanish
  • enough to be helpful for NLP: German, Hebrew, Mandarin
  • learning Brazilian Portuguese

Additional experience

  • Insight AI Fellowship, Spring 2018
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley, 2016-2018
  • Research Assistant, Princeton University, 2010-2011
  • Staff Assistant, Population Council, 2008-2009

Timeline

Head of Innovation

Nurdle
09.2023 - 03.2024

Director of Data Science

Spectrum Labs
04.2022 - 09.2023

VP, Data Science at IQT Labs

In-Q-Tel
11.2020 - 04.2022

Senior Data Scientist at IQT Labs

In-Q-Tel
04.2020 - 11.2020

Data Scientist at IQT Labs

In-Q-Tel
10.2018 - 04.2020

Ph.D. - Neuroscience

University of Maryland, Baltimore

Bachelor of Arts - Behavioral Biology

Johns Hopkins University

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