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Marina Zhukova

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Marina Zhukova

Marina Zhukova is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a OneReach.ai Academic Fellow. Marina’s research interests cover conversational AI, computational social science, and sociocultural linguistics. Marina was recently selected as a Google Computer Science Research Mentorship Program Scholar (2023a cohort), she interned at Amazon Alexa AI and won the Amazon Alexa Prize Social Bot Grand Challenge 5 as a part of the GauchoChat team.

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