Momchil Hardalov
Scholar

Momchil Hardalov

Google Scholar ID: rzJnkjgAAAAJ
Amazon, AGI
Natural Language ProcessingMachine LearningQuestion AnsweringDialogueSentiment Analysis
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,012
 
H-index
15
 
i10-index
19
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
40
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Publications: Multiple papers accepted by AACL-IJCNLP-22, NAACL-HLT-22, ACL-22, TACL, AAAI-22, EMNLP 2021, etc.
  • - Project Involvement: Participated in several projects related to stance detection, cross-lingual question answering, etc.
  • - Awards: First place in Task 2B of the CLEF-2021 CheckThat! competition as part of Team DIPS
Research Experience
  • - Applied Scientist at Amazon AWS AI Labs
  • - Research Scientist at Checkstep Research, working on NLP for content moderation
  • - Machine Learning Engineer at ReceiptBank (now Dext), building NLP models for automatic field information extraction from unstructured payment documents
  • - Machine Learning Engineer at Adcash OÜ, developing distributed and scalable models for ad recommendations
  • - Full-stack Software Engineer and Team Lead at Acstre, creating and maintaining desktop and web applications
Education
  • - Ph.D. Candidate in Natural Language Processing, 2017-2023 (Expected), Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • - MSc in Information Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery, 2014-2016, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
  • - BEng in Computer Systems and Technologies, 2010-2014, Technical University-Sofia
Background
  • - Research Interests: Question answering, conversational agents, patterns-based few-shot learning, distant supervision, cross-lingual and cross-domain transfer
  • - Professional Field: Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • - Brief Introduction: Strong software engineering background with extensive experience in developing production systems.
Miscellany
  • - Interests: Natural Language Processing, Few-Shot Learning, Semi-Supervised Learning, Multilingual Learning, Stance Detection, Abusive Language Detection, Question Answering, Conversational Agents