Alyona Medelyan, PhD

Hi! I'm Alyona, and I'm originally from Crimea, Ukraine. I discovered AI back in 1998 at uni and have been studying and working in this field for 25+ years. My PhD in extracting meaning from text was sponsored by Google. In 2015, I co-founded Thematic, a Y Combinator company that helps enterprises understand and act on customer feedback. Today, I'm CEO at Thematic. And in my spare time, I teach women in business AI skills. I live with my husband and two kids in Auckland, New Zealand.