Alina Zavgorodniaia is a Junior Researcher at STC (speechpro.com), a position she has held since 2024. Alina completed her Bachelor’s degree in Intelligent Systems in the Humanities at Pyatigorsk State University in 2023 and received her Master’s degree in Speech Technologies and Machine Learning from ITMO University in St. Petersburg in 2025. Since 2023, her research has focused on semantic search, neural text vector representations, and modern natural language processing, with particular attention to retrieval-augmented methods. She is interested in training retrieval models, relevance ranking, and the evaluation of search systems.