Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, MD USA
PhD Student, 2010 Google Anita Borg Scholarship
Department of Computer Science
Center for Language and Speech Processing
Adviser: Chris Callison-Burch
3400 North Charles, Baltimore MD 21218
E-mail: svitlana[AT]jhu.edu or svitlana.volkova[AT]gmail.com
Research interests: user attribute identification in social media, sentiment analysis, ESL error correction, conversational interactions and question generation, optimization and graph theory.
Department of Computer Science
Center for Language and Speech Processing
Adviser: Chris Callison-Burch
3400 North Charles, Baltimore MD 21218
E-mail: svitlana[AT]jhu.edu or svitlana.volkova[AT]gmail.com
Research interests: user attribute identification in social media, sentiment analysis, ESL error correction, conversational interactions and question generation, optimization and graph theory.
Kansas State University - Manhattan, KS USA
MS in Computer Science, 2008 - 2010 Fulbright Graduate Student Scholarship
Computing and Information Sciences Department
Research Assistant, Knowledge Discovery in Databases Laboratory
Advisers: William H. Hsu, Doina Caragea
Research project: Information Extraction in the Predictive Epidemiology Domain, supported by National Agricultural Biosecurity Center and U.S. DoD.
MS thesis: Entity extraction, animal disease-related event recognition and classification from web [slides_short][slides_long].
Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University - Mykolayiv, Ukraine
MS in Computer Science, Intellectual Systems of Decision Making
Research Fellow, Instructor at Medical Equipment and Systems Department
Advisers: Yuriy Kondratenko, Oleksandr Trunov
Research interests: software engineering, software testing and verification, reliability and quality, automated system control and intellectual systems of decisions making.
Research project: Algorithms and programming tools for increasing software safety, quality and reliability for medical diagnostic systems.
MS thesis: Software development for automated testing of students' knowledge.
Research Fellow, Instructor at Medical Equipment and Systems Department
Advisers: Yuriy Kondratenko, Oleksandr Trunov
Research interests: software engineering, software testing and verification, reliability and quality, automated system control and intellectual systems of decisions making.
Research project: Algorithms and programming tools for increasing software safety, quality and reliability for medical diagnostic systems.
MS thesis: Software development for automated testing of students' knowledge.
