About

Galina Alperovich is a highly skilled and experienced Staff Scientist at Avast with 9 years of industry experience in data analysis and building Machine Learning pipelines. She has expertise in various domains including Cybersecurity, Healthcare, Information Retrieval, and Source code analysis. Galina holds a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence and a Master's degree in Mathematics. She also has software development experience and is well-versed in Big data, Tensorflow, Spark, Hive, SQL, Kubernetes, MLFlow, Python (numpy, sklearn, pandas, keras, etc), Java, Web experience (web-crawling, chrome extension development, Django, Flask, Streamlit, JavaScript, HTML/CSS). Currently, Galina is leading the team developing the AI-based Privacy solution for Android applications and websites at Avast. She is responsible for the end-to-end project from initiating the idea and delivering the results to a product team. Galina also excels in AI modelling and developing the required tools. Previously, Galina has worked as a Senior Machine Learning Researcher and Machine Learning Researcher at Avast software. She has worked on production ML models such as device identification based on rich networking data including text, anomaly detection in the streaming network traffic produced by devices (with a bigger focus on IoT), and customer feedback classification with NLP. She has also worked on internal Python tools and educational ML club. Galina has a strong educational background, having completed a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from Czech Technical University in Prague, a Master's degree in Mathematics from Saint Petersburg State University, and a Big data analytics CSCI E-63 program from Harvard Extension School. Her tech stack includes Research Scientist, AI, ML, SQL, Information Retrieval, Web, Keras, Spark, Scikit, Big Data, Kubernetes, Javascript, Tensorflow, Pandas, Flask, Software Engineer, Python, Django, Apache Hive, Java, and Android. With 9.20 years of relevant experience, Galina is a valuable asset to any organization that values expertise in data analysis and Machine Learning pipelines.