Ivelina Stoyanova holds a Bachelor's degree in Bulgarian Studies and a Master's degree in Computational Humanities from Sofia University, Bulgaria, a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with Mathematics from the University of Bath, UK, as well as a PhD from the Institute for Bulgarian Language at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Since 2024 she is a senior assistant professor at the Institute for Bulgarian Language at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her main research interests are predominantly in the field of computational linguistics – computational semantics, developing monolingual and multilingual linguistic resources with a focus on Bulgarian, linguistic annotation, developing methods for natural language processing, large language models, etc.