Regina Kushtanova

About

Creative, results-driven AI Product Lead with a foundation in UX, AI engineering, research, and psychology. Owns the full AI lifecycle from data exploration and model fine-tuning to UX integration, balancing model quality, latency, cost, and user experience. Experienced in shaping strategy and building user-centred products from 0 to 1, leading international cross-functional teams to scale products from concept to 500k users. Published in international conferences and journals including INTERSPEECH, VISAPP, RAAI, and Springer Nature.

Experience

• AI Product Lead · Nordic Hamburg11-01-2025

  Building and shipping AI solutions embedded in a CRM for hiring teams Owning the full AI lifecycle, from data exploration and model fine-tuning to UX integration Balancing model quality, latency, cost, and user experience Working with founders and engineers to translate business needs into technical solutions

• Research Scientist (AI) · Munich University of Applied Sciences04-01-2024 – 08-01-2025

  Led applied AI research for a semi-autonomous shuttle bus project: Benchmarked sensors and optimised ML model on NVIDIA Jetson edge devices Published 3 papers for international conferences Drove problem framing, experimentation plans, and stakeholder updates Translated research goals into actionable backlog items

• AI Product Developer & UX Researcher · ISIA Firenze02-01-2023 – 09-01-2023

  Built an emotionally intelligent smart-home assistant (NLP + emotion recognition) Ran market and user research, and implemented APIs for multimodal interaction Developed multimodal APIs enabling natural voice interaction.

• AI Researcher (Master Thesis) · University of Augsburg07-01-2022 – 02-01-2023

  Built a multimodal classification system for psychological reactions (speech + video + text). Handled data collection/ cleaning, achieved state-of-the-art results, leading a 5-person data team. Published findings at INTERSPEECH 2023 (A+ ranked).

• Head of Design / Product Manager · Martide (B2B SaaS)09-01-2019 – 10-01-2021

  Re-architected UX and product flows for maritime recruitment & crew management; introduced new features/design system that helped secure 30+ new industry clients and agencies.

• Head of Design / Project Manager · Coinbundle (B2C)04-01-2018 – 04-01-2019

  Built UX and UI for a crypto platform and the viral “Bounty Hunter” campaign, attracting ~500k users Managed 3 designers across product and brand

• Product Owner and Creative Director · Logomachine (B2B)10-01-2014 – 04-01-2018

  Built and managed a 42-person design team delivering branding and digital products for global clients Refined and enhanced the product and value proposition, optimised team performance with automations Implemented agile workflows and gamified systems, boosting efficiency by 64% Increased client satisfaction from 75% to 91% in one year

Education

• State Pedagogical UniversityB.A., Graphic Design & Art Education (Focus: graphic and brand design, educational psychology.)
• Augsburg University of Applied SciencesM.A., Human-computer interaction (Focus: HCI for mixed reality, NLP, emotion recognition and affective computing.)

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