Data Science

Anna Aksenova

Senior Data Scientist at EPAM Systems

Faculty Profile

Anna Aksenova is a Machine Learning and NLP specialist working on enterprise-scale agentic systems and Retrieval-Augmented Generation solutions, with a focus on sales and finance domains. Alongside her industry work, she has led applied research and development in healthcare-related Horizon Europe projects. Anna holds a Master’s degree in Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI from Aalto University, where her thesis focused on training a multilingual large language model for European languages. She teaches Machine Learning and NLP courses at both university and corporate levels and supervises graduate students’ research projects.

Experience

Feb 2025 - Present
Senior Data Scientist
EPAM Systems
Sep 2022 - Feb 2025
NLP Researcher
Ontotext
Sep 2022 - Jul 2023
Tutor
Higher School of Economics
Feb 2023 - May 2023
Invited lecturer
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University)
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
Machine Learning Engineer
Sberbank
Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
Data Analyst
Sberbank
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
Lecturer
Netologia
Jan 2021 - Mar 2022
Teaching Assistant
Higher School of Economics
Jan 2020 - Mar 2022
Teaching Assistant
Coursera
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
Intern
DeepPavlov.ai
Mar 2020 - Jun 2021
Head Teacher
Online school "Импульс"
Oct 2020 - Jan 2021
Linguistics Teacher
Siryius.Courses
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
Program Intern
SberDevices

Education

2023 - 2025
Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Aalto University
2018 - 2022
Bachelor's degree, Fundamental and Computational LinguisticsBachelor's degree, Fundamental and Computational Linguistics
HSE University
2021 - 2021
Exchange studies, Linguistics
UiT Norges arktiske universitet