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PhD researcher in Language Sciences specializing in eye-tracking, medical text simplification, and NLP.
Experienced in designing and analyzing eye-tracking experiments, building annotated corpora, and training transformer-based language models to predict reading behavior.

Education

PhD in Language Sciences, University of Lille (STL — UMR CNRS 8163), 2021–present
Eye-tracking annotation of a simplified French corpus for automatic prediction of reading behavior (Supervisor: Natalia Grabar)
MA in Language Sciences, University of Lille, 2019–2021
Thesis: Simplification of medical texts (Supervisor: Natalia Grabar)
Professional training, Dr.-Maria-Probst-Schule / Robert-Kümmert-Akademie, Würzburg (Germany), 2017–2018
Training in educational and social support for individuals with disabilities
DAAD Scholarship / Academic exchange, University of Bamberg (Germany), 2012
BA in Philology (German & English), Pedagogical University of Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), 2008–2012

Research Experience

Research Engineer, CNRS (ANR CLEAR Project), Lille, France, 2022; 2024–2025
Modeling reading behavior in French medical texts using eye-tracking annotated corpora.
Research Fellow (STSM), University of Galway, Galway, Ireland, 09/2024
Conducted research on enhancing eye-fixation prediction using Large Language Models (LLMs) (MultiplEYE COST Action).
Visiting Researcher (funded research stay), SFB 1102, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, 04–07/2024
Conducted research on the processing of medical terminology using eye-tracking data.

Teaching & Supervision (highlights)

Co-supervision (Bachelor’s thesis), Saarland University (Data Science & AI), 2025
Classifying Expertise of Readers in the Medical Domain.
Instructor, University of Lille:
Syntax (Bachelor, 24h), 2024
Experimental Linguistics (Master 1, 24h), 2023
Semantics (Bachelor, 144h), 2022–2024
Teaching Assistant: Syntax + Phonetics/Phonology (Bachelor, 18h), 2022–2023
German language instructor (A1–C1), 2016–present (2500+ hours)

Continuing Education

3rd Summer School on Deep Learning and LLMs for NLP (RANLP 2025), Varna, Bulgaria — team ranked 1st place in the LLM application competition.
ESSLLI, Ljubljana & Galway.
Methods in Language Sciences (Eye-Tracking & NLP), Ghent University.
Python for NLP Spring School, Nancy.
Online training in Python and neural networks (Udemy).

Skills

Programming & Data: Python (pandas, NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, matplotlib), PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers
Research: eye-tracking experiment design (Tobii Pro Spectrum), corpus construction, statistical analysis
Tools: LaTeX, Git, Linux
Languages: Ukrainian (native), German (C2), English (C2), Russian (C2), French (C1), Dutch (B1)