Speaker

Dr. Elena Nazarenko is a lecturer at HSLU and Co-head of the LLMs and AI Agents bootcamp. Her work focuses on applying AI responsibly, with a special interest in bias mitigation and small language models. Her industry experience includes serving as Head of Data and AI at Witty Works, where she built the core algorithm for their inclusive writing assistant (Hugging Face startup accelerator participant and Microsoft Entrepreneurship for Positive Impact Cup 2024 finalist). She and her students recently earned the Best Paper Award at the Swiss Data Science Conference and Best Poster Award at Swiss Text.