I'm a researcher at the Statistical NLP Group, lead by Prof. Stefan Riezler. My current research concerns structural machine learning and ranking algorithms with applications to Statistical Machine Translation and Information Retrieval. I moved to Heidelberg from the Spoken Language Processing Group, at the LIMSI laboratory in Orsay (Prof. François Yvon). Previously, at Orange Labs, R&D France Telecom in Lannion (France), I worked, as a postdoctoral researcher, on learning-to-rank algorithms for search engines with Dr. Tanguy Urvoy. I obtained a PhD (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence) at the Neural Information Processing Technologies department of the Int. Research & Training Center for Information Technologies and Systems in Kyiv (Ukraine), in randomized distributed representations and neural-like locality-sensitive (similarity-preserving) symbol sequence embeddings, under supervision of DSc. Dmitri Rachkovskij.