Elena Mikhalkova

Associate Professor, School of Computational Social Sciences
Academic biography

Current Position: Dozent, Director of Programs in Applied Computer Science, School of Computational Social Sciences, European University at St. Petersburg.

Previous Position: 2012 - 2024: Dozent, Tyumen State University.


Education:


Candidate of Philology (PhD equivalent), 2009

Master of Applied Computer Science (in Economics), 2015


Expertise and Teaching:


I teach courses in Python programming, chatbot development, information and search systems, computational linguistics, and data analysis.


Program Development and Leadership:


Developed and launched the Master's program "Theory of Teaching Foreign Languages and Cultures" (2010) at Tyumen State University.

Developed and launched the Master's program "Applied Linguistics" (2019) at Tyumen State University.

Developed the Master's program "Artificial Intelligence in History, Linguistics, and Philology" (2023).

Developed continuing education programs (DPO): "Transformers: Neural Network Architecture," "Creating Chatbots on the JAICP Platform," and "Crash Course in Python and Artificial Intelligence."


Conference and Workshop Organization:


Since 2012, organizer of the international youth scientific-practical "Conference on Text Interpretation (ConTIn)."

* Organizer of the (free and open) School of Computational Linguistics at Tyumen State University.


Research and Grants:


Principal Investigator on two grants and participated in the implementation of grant projects (Federal Target Program, Potanin Foundation, Russian Foundation for Basic Research).

Regularly publish in journals and conference proceedings on philology, computer linguistics, and NLP.

Supervise the research work of several groups of faculty and students, with whom I develop linguistic datasets and write computer programs for research purposes.


Git Repository: https://github.com/evrog


Publications

Academic paper/Article

Abstracts and Conference Proceedings

Online lectures