About

I’m a Senior Data Scientist specializing in fraud prevention and risk modeling. Most recently, at Klarna, an international payment services provider and bank, I developed and deployed models and policy rules that detect account takeover attempts while minimizing impact on legitimate login activity. Previously, I worked on credit card fraud prevention at Fraugster, a former fraud prevention service for online businesses. I’m currently expanding my skills into data engineering and am open to new roles in data science and data engineering.

Before industry, I was an experimental and computational psycholinguist at Saarland University. I primarily used behavioral experiments and probabilistic models to look at how people combine expectations about speaker efficiency, world knowledge, and discourse in interpreting the meaning of complex utterances. You can find my PhD thesis here.

I’m a native English and Russian speaker, and proficient German speaker. In my off-time, I enjoy swimming, hiking, rock climbing, and playing board games. I like data, sci-fi, and cats.