Jekaterina Novikova

Principal Researcher, Vanguard

Joined

November 2018

Names

Jekaterina Novikova (Preferred)

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@bath.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Principal Researcher

Vanguard (vanguard.com)

2025 – Present

Director of ML

Winterlight Labs (winterlightlabs.com)

2018 – 2024

Postdoc

Heriot-Watt University (hw.ac.uk)

2015 – 2018

PhD student

University of Bath (bath.ac.uk)

2012 – 2015

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

No relations added

Expertise

natural language processing

Present

evaluation

Present

alzheimer's detection

Present

natural language generation

Present

conversational ai

Present

large language models

Present

responsible ai

Present

Publications

AfriCaption: Establishing a New Paradigm for Image Captioning in African Languages
Mardiyyah Oduwole, Prince Mireku, Fatimo Adebanjo, Oluwatosin Olajide, Mahi Aminu Aliyu, Jekaterina Novikova
- AfricaNLP 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Kaleidoscope: In-language Exams for Massively Multilingual Vision Evaluation
Israfel Salazar, Manuel Fernández Burda, Shayekh Bin Islam, Arshia Soltani Moakhar, Shivalika Singh, Fabian Farestam, Angelika Romanou, Danylo Boiko, Dipika Khullar, Mike Zhang, Dominik Krzemiński, Jekaterina Novikova, Luísa Shimabucoro, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Rishabh Maheshwary, Sharad Duwal, Alfonso Amayuelas, Swati Rajwal, Jebish Purbey, Ahmed Ruby et al. (25 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Consistency in Language Models: Current Landscape, Challenges, and Future Directions
Jekaterina Novikova, Carol Myrick Anderson, Borhane Blili-Hamelin, Domenic Rosati, Subhabrata Majumdar
- ICML 2025 R2-FM Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone
INCLUDE: Evaluating Multilingual Language Understanding with Regional Knowledge
Angelika Romanou, Negar Foroutan, Anna Sotnikova, Sree Harsha Nelaturu, Shivalika Singh, Rishabh Maheshwary, Micol Altomare, Zeming Chen, Mohamed A. Haggag, Snegha A, Alfonso Amayuelas, Azril Hafizi Amirudin, Danylo Boiko, Michael Chang, Jenny Chim, Gal Cohen, Aditya Kumar Dalmia, Abraham Diress, Sharad Duwal, Daniil Dzenhaliou et al. (37 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2025 Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models
Aarohi Srivastava, Abhinav Rastogi, Abhishek Rao, Abu Awal Md Shoeb, Abubakar Abid, Adam Fisch, Adam R. Brown, Adam Santoro, Aditya Gupta, Adrià Garriga-Alonso, Agnieszka Kluska, Aitor Lewkowycz, Akshat Agarwal, Alethea Power, Alex Ray, Alex Warstadt, Alexander W. Kocurek, Ali Safaya, Ali Tazarv, Alice Xiang et al. (430 additional authors not shown)
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Multi-modal deep learning system for depression and anxiety detection
Brian Diep, Marija Stanojevic, Jekaterina Novikova
- Published: 21 Oct 2022, Last Modified: 05 May 2023
- PAI4MH 2022 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Augmenting BERT Carefully with Underrepresented Linguistic Features
Aparna Balagopalan, Jekaterina Novikova
- 2020 (modified: 04 Nov 2022)
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Fantastic Features and Where to Find Them: Detecting Cognitive Impairment with a Subsequence Classification Guided Approach
Benjamin Eyre, Aparna Balagopalan, Jekaterina Novikova
- 2020 (modified: 04 Nov 2022)
- W-NUT@EMNLP 2020
- Readers: Everyone
To BERT or Not To BERT: Comparing Speech and Language-based Approaches for Alzheimer's Disease Detection
Aparna Balagopalan, Benjamin Eyre, Frank Rudzicz, Jekaterina Novikova
- 2020 (modified: 17 Apr 2023)
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Impact of ASR on Alzheimer's Disease Detection: All Errors are Equal, but Deletions are More Equal than Others
Aparna Balagopalan, Ksenia Shkaruta, Jekaterina Novikova
- 2020 (modified: 04 Nov 2022)
- W-NUT@EMNLP 2020
- Readers: Everyone

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