Yauheniya Shynkevich is a data scientist at Almax Analytics. She has completed her PhD in quantitative data science at Ulster University in 2016, the focus of her research work is on stock price forecasting using machine learning and natural-language processing. Yauheniya obtained a Financial Risk Manager (FRM) designation in 2016. Prior to starting her PhD, she worked for Allied Testing, a financial software testing company, and led projects for Deutsche Bank and Thomson Reuters as a financial engineering and QA team lead.