Maria Dyshel

Maria Dyshel is a social entrepreneur and artificial intelligence expert, focusing on using machine intelligence and chatbots for social impact. She has held a variety of AI research, engineering, and management roles in diverse industries, from designing and improving algorithms for autonomous vehicles to implementing a company-wide conversational AI program in one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. An avid conversational AI enthusiast, Maria has led and supported the creation of more than 25 conversational assistants (chatbots). Maria is currently the CEO and cofounder of Tangible AI.

books by Maria Dyshel

Natural Language Processing in Action, Second Edition

  • January 2025
  • ISBN 9781617299445
  • 688 pages
  • printed in black & white

Natural Language Processing in Action, Second Edition introduces the foundational technologies and state-of-the-art tools you’ll need to write and publish NLP applications. You learn how to create custom models for search, translation, writing assistants, and more, without relying on big commercial foundation models. This fully updated second edition includes coverage of BERT, Hugging Face transformers, fine-tuning large language models, and more.