Alyona Medelyan

Alyona came to New Zealand five years ago from Ukraine, via Germany. She has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waikato and now works for Pingar, a search technology company based in Tauranga.

Alyona worked in an IT start-up Exorbyte.com, researched at the European Media Lab in Heidelberg and completed an internship at Google New York.

Her areas of expertise are Text Mining, Natural Language Processing, and Information Retrieval.