Alex Yanishevsky

Alex Yanishevsky

Senior Director, AI and MT Solutions at Smartling

Qualifications

Senior Director of AI and MT Solutions at Smartling

11+ years at Welocalize, culminating as Director of AI Deployments

Adjunct professor of NLP at the University of Strasbourg TC Loc program

Expertise

Machine Translation

Natural Language Processing

AI

Localization

Globalization

Language Technology

Alex Yanishevsky is a machine translation and AI localization specialist with over two decades in the language technology industry. He is Senior Director of AI and MT Solutions at Smartling, having previously spent more than eleven years at Welocalize, most recently as Director of AI Deployments. He also serves as an adjunct professor in the University of Strasbourg's TC Loc program, where he teaches natural language processing.

Experience

Senior Director, AI and MT Solutions at Smartling

Dec 2022 — Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

Leads AI and machine translation solutions.

Adjunct Professor at University of Strasbourg TC Loc Program

Oct 2022 — Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

Teaches Introduction to Natural Language Processing and advises graduate master's theses.

Director, AI Deployments at Welocalize

May 2017 to Jan 2023 · 5 yrs 8 mos

Managed AI/NLP engineering team building NLP-enabled localization tools.

Senior Manager, Solutions Architects at Welocalize

Jun 2014 to May 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Managed a team of solution architects supporting sales and product requirements.

Senior Solutions Architect at Welocalize

Jun 2011 to Jun 2014 · 3 yrs

Led deployments of the GlobalSight Translation Management System.

Senior Solutions Architect at PROMT

Jan 2008 to Jun 2011 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Machine translation solutions architecture.

Qualifications

Senior Director of AI and MT Solutions at Smartling

11+ years at Welocalize, culminating as Director of AI Deployments

Adjunct professor of NLP at the University of Strasbourg TC Loc program

Expertise

Machine Translation

Natural Language Processing

AI

Localization

Globalization

Language Technology

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