Senka Drobac
Summary
Experienced Postdoctoral Researcher with expertise in Machine Learning, NLP, Semantic Web and Knowledge graphs. Skilled in bridging academic research with practical applications, employing different technologies.
Experienced in cross-functional teams, aligning technology plans with business goals, and driving successful implementations.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Postdoctoral Researcher
Aalto University
01.2021 - Current
- Transforming the letter metadata of correspondence in the Grand Duchy of Finland (1809-1917) into Linked Open Data (Python, RDF, SKOS, SPARQL, Slurm)
- Leveraged interpersonal and communication skills to mentor PhD, graduate and undergraduate students.
- Contributed to and actively participated in research conception, design and execution to address defined problems.
- Produced a dataset of more than 750,000 letters and 69,000 persons in the Linked Open Data format.
Co-founder and CEO
Kieli Experts Oy
11.2020 - Current
- Bringing academic research to the public, Finite State Transducers, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Web Development.
- Collaborated with contractors to deliver high-quality work on time and within budget, achieving project goals consistently.
Researcher
University of Helsinki
01.2020 - 12.2020
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of Finnish parliamentary debates (Tesseract), Linked Open Data, ontologies, EOSC-NORDIC project, Code Repositories, Containerization and "Virtual laboratories"
- Wrote research papers and held presentations regarding Optical Character Recognition.
Doctoral student and Early-stage researcher
University of Helsinki
04.2011 - 12.2019
- Conducted OCR and post-correction of historical newspapers and journals published in Finland using tools such as Ocropy, Calamari, Python, and machine learning (ML) techniques.
- Generated training data and trained neural OCR models to improve accuracy in the digitization of historical texts.
- Conducted experiments to optimize OCR performance and accuracy on historical documents.
- Implemented OCR post-correction using Finite State Machines to enhance the quality of digitized text.
- Developed a font-family neural classifier using Keras for identifying and handling diverse font styles in historical documents.
- Contributed to the creation of the HFST (Helsinki Finite-State Transducer) library for text processing tasks.
- Utilized Finite State Machines for Natural Language Processing (NLP) in C++ to build efficient language processing pipelines.
- Investigated methods for hyper-minimizing morphologies represented as Finite State Transducers to improve the efficiency of morphological analysis in historical texts.
Associate Expert
Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia
05.2008 - 09.2010
- Led the development of a data backbone, including conducting GRID experiments and technical surveys, utilizing skills in C, SQL, and Python.
- Conducted technical surveys to assess data infrastructure needs and optimize data management processes.
- Initiated a national initiative, involving organizational and management activities to drive projects and initiatives to successful completion.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful implementation of the national initiative and align with organizational objectives.
Education
Ph.D. - Language Technology
University of Helsinki, Finland
10.2020
M.Sc. - Computer Science
University of Zagreb, Croatia
09.2007
Skills
- Python
- SQL
- Clusters
- Git
- AI
- NLP
- OCR
- Project work
- Research
- Interdisciplinary Coordination
Languages
Croatian
Native language
English
Advanced
C1
Finnish
Intermediate
B1
Timeline
Postdoctoral Researcher
Aalto University
01.2021 - Current
Co-founder and CEO
Kieli Experts Oy
11.2020 - Current
Researcher
University of Helsinki
01.2020 - 12.2020
Doctoral student and Early-stage researcher
University of Helsinki
04.2011 - 12.2019
Associate Expert
Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia
05.2008 - 09.2010
Ph.D. - Language Technology
University of Helsinki, Finland
M.Sc. - Computer Science
University of Zagreb, Croatia
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