Alex Murzaku

Alex Murzaku has a diverse work experience spanning various roles in academia and industry. They have worked as a Professor, teaching courses in Data Analytics, linguistics, languages, and cultures at Saint Elizabeth University since 2003. In addition, they have conducted research in corpus linguistics and documented low density and endangered languages.

Alex has also worked as a Research Scientist and Director at Gap International since 2014, where they are involved in scientific research. Prior to that, they served as the Principal at LISSUS llc, a role in which they were likely responsible for leading the company.

In the early 2000s, Alex worked as the Director of Knowledge Engineering at Abridge, Inc., where they designed and developed text mining and document clustering/classification software. They also worked as the VP of R&D at Logos Corporation and as the AVP of R&D at Metro One, Inc. during this time.

At Microlytics, Inc., Alex served as the AVP of R&D and managed a team in researching and developing spellcheckers and thesauri. They also had hands-on experience in developing phonetic rules and regular expressions for multiple languages using PARC-Xerox FSM/FST technology.

Alex's earliest research experience can be traced back to their role as a Research Associate at the Academy of Sciences, where they likely conducted research in their field.

Overall, Alex Murzaku has a strong background in academia and research as well as experience in leadership roles within the private sector.

Alex Murzaku obtained a B.A./M.A. degree in French and Informatics from the University of Tirana in 1986. Alex then pursued a Dottore degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures at the Università della Calabria from 1990 to 1992. Later, they completed a Ph.D. in Linguistics at Scuola Normale Superiore from 1990 to 1993.