Alyona Medelyan, PhD, is CEO of Thematic, a customer insights platform. We analyze customer feedback to tell companies what drives loyalty and how to prevent churn.
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Prior to that Alyona consulted on Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.
She is an O'Reilly speaker and runs the NLP in NZ meetup. She is the author of the open-source topic indexing tool Maui.
Her Masters is from the University of Freiburg, and her PhD from the University of Waikato (supervised by Ian Witten).
She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Nathan Holmberg, and two children, Maya and Mark.
Move to US — Aug 1, 2018 4:54:56 AM
Speaking in London, New York and Singapore in 2016 — Jul 3, 2016 9:10:29 PM
Coding open-ended questions using Deep Learning — Sep 14, 2015 1:18:43 AM
Getting girls into tech — Mar 1, 2015 9:43:39 PM
Hear me speak at KiwiPycon 2014 in Wellington — Sep 4, 2014 8:48:59 PM
Yay, I am a member of the Global Google Anita Borg Alumni Planning Committee — May 12, 2014 11:22:32 PM
The first NLP consultancy in NZ — Nov 4, 2013 7:51:17 AM
What happens to Kiwi CS graduates? — Apr 20, 2013 5:29:35 AM
My talk at Text Analytics World — Oct 10, 2012 3:02:02 AM
SemanticWeb.com Interview — Jul 24, 2012 3:08:11 AM
Speaking at Strata — Feb 19, 2012 11:45:56 PM
R&D in California — Sep 29, 2011 6:16:13 PM
Pingar released English & Chinese NLP APIs — Apr 15, 2011 7:16:45 AM
Kiwifoo & Christchurch Earthquake — Feb 24, 2011 10:09:53 AM
Interview "The life of a computational linguist" — Oct 21, 2010 9:22:05 PM
Enterprise search solution in Chinese — Jul 24, 2010 11:23:16 AM
Two publications in 2010 — May 10, 2010 5:34:55 AM
Girl Geek Dinner in Tauranga — Feb 10, 2010 6:50:09 AM
Keyphrase extraction at SemEval-2010 — Jan 28, 2010 10:17:13 PM
NZ CSRSC 2010 in Wellington — Jan 21, 2010 3:05:17 AM
Life after the PhD — Dec 18, 2009 8:18:13 AM
Requirements for a PhD fulfilled! — Nov 1, 2009 8:12:48 AM
Passed the Oral Exam — Oct 6, 2009 11:35:54 PM
Post-PhD holiday — Sep 22, 2009 4:36:57 AM
PhD thesis submitted — Jul 21, 2009 4:13:05 AM
Paper accepted at WI-2009 in Milan — Jun 10, 2009 12:21:06 AM
Paper on Maui accepted at EMNLP'09 — Jun 4, 2009 9:19:51 AM
Maui Topic Indexer is now available for download! — May 19, 2009 3:50:05 AM
Wikipedia research - a historical overview: IR, IE, NLP and ontologies — May 1, 2009 11:10:04 PM
Poster accepted at WWW'09 in Madrid — Mar 12, 2009 11:01:48 PM
Back in NZ — Jan 18, 2009 10:25:08 PM
Tech Talk at Google NYC — Dec 24, 2008 6:17:13 AM
NZ CSRSC 09 — Oct 29, 2008 4:13:43 AM
Anita Borg Finalist — Oct 17, 2008 2:14:57 AM
Intership at Google, NY — Oct 12, 2008 11:39:00 PM
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