About
Alyona Medelyan holds a Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing and founded Thematic, which provides AI-powered analysis of customer feedback to help companies understand and improve customer experience. She has published research in NLP that has been widely cited in academic literature.
Founder/CEO at ThematicYC S17
Intro paths
YC
Alyona went through Y Combinator (Summer 2017) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Co-founders at Thematic
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Nathan HolmbergFounder/Vice President of Product
Experience
- ThematicCo-Founder and CEOcurrent2015 — presentUnited States
- Women in CX ™Inner Circle Membercurrent2025 — present
- Forbes Technology CouncilOfficial Member2022 — 2023
- EntopixFounder & CEO2013 — 2015Auckland, New Zealand
- PingarCRO2011 — 2013Auckland, New Zealand
- PingarSenior Software Engineer R&D2009 — 2011Auckland, New Zealand
- GoogleSoftware Engineering Intern2008 — 2009Greater New York City Area
- European Media LaboratoryVisiting Researcher2007Heidelberg Area, Germany
- exorbyte GmbHSoftware Engineering Intern2004 — 2005Konstanz Area, Germany
- University of FreiburgResearch assistant2000 — 2005Freiburg Area, Germany
Skills & more
Machine Learning80Text Mining54Natural Language Processing72Information Retrieval29Semantics15Research11Text Analytics17Metadata6Search Engine Technology3Project Management6Information Extraction26Computational Linguistics16
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Computer ScienceSoftware EngineeringArtificial IntelligenceSemantic TechnologiesAlgorithmsOntologiesSemantic WebSentiment AnalysisJavaRussianGermanData MiningLanguages English · German · Ukrainian
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Alyona Medelyan?
- Alyona Medelyan holds a Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing and founded Thematic, which provides AI-powered analysis of customer feedback to help companies understand and improve customer experience. She has published research in NLP that has been widely cited in academic literature.
- Where does Alyona Medelyan work?
- Alyona Medelyan is Founder/CEO of Thematic.
- What companies did Alyona Medelyan found?
- Alyona Medelyan founded Thematic.
- Where did Alyona Medelyan go to school?
- Alyona Medelyan studied at Y Combinator (S17); The University of Waikato (PhD, Computer Science); The University of Freiburg (Magister Artium, German Linguistics).
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