Ekaterina Stambolieva

Katia (Ekaterina) Stambolieva is an accomplished individual with a diverse educational background and a rich professional history. She holds a Second High-school diploma in English Language and Literature from First English Language School, where she graduated with Honors. Katia pursued further studies, earning a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Natural Language Processing through the prestigious Erasmus Mundus grant program. She completed this degree at both The University of Wolverhampton and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Additionally, she holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Software Engineering from Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski and a High-school Diploma in Mathematics and Computer Science from Bulgarian National School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Katia has gained extensive experience across various organizations, demonstrating her leadership and mentorship skills. She currently serves as the CEO of Cosmos Pics. Previously, she contributed her expertise as a Startup Mentor at Founder Institute Luxembourg, an Impact Mentor at F-LANE Accelerator for Female Empowerment, a Mentor at Terra.do, a Startup Mentor at FemGems Club, and as a Data Scientist at Self-Employed. Katia has also founded several initiatives, including Nina Space, FreeFifty, and Sugarwise. Her professional journey has also included roles such as Fellow at Newspeak House, Chief Do-Good Officer at FreeFifty, NLP Engineer at Unbabel, Linguistic Solutions Architect at AMPLEXOR International, Machine Translation Trainee at the European Parliament, CMMI Consultant at Musala Soft, and Junior Software Engineer at Ontotext AD.