Alyona Medelyan has been working on algorithms that make sense of language data for over a decade. Her passion lies in helping businesses to extracting useful knowledge from text. As part of her PhD she has proven that her open source algorithm, Maui, can be as accurate as people at finding keywords. She has worked with large multinationals like. Cisco and Google, has lead R&D teams and consulted to small and large companies around the globe. Alyona now runs Thematic, a customer insight company.
