Yana Petrova

Yana Petrova is a Senior Language Engineer at Amazon Web Services, where they currently manage projects in language engineering. They have held various roles in the language and linguistics field, including as a Manager at Amazon and as an Analytic Linguistic Project Manager at Google. Yana's earlier experience includes positions as a Computational Linguist at Microsoft and Clarabridge, focusing on deriving actionable insights from unstructured data. They earned a PhD in Linguistics with a concentration in Computational Linguistics from the State University of New York at Buffalo, following a BA in Philology from The Yakut State University and a MA in Linguistics from the University at Buffalo.