Natalia is a senior scientist at the Analytics Lab and the manager of HP Labs Russia.

Prior to that she worked as a software developer for several IT companies and taught at St. Petersburg State University.

She graduated with honor from Saint Petersburg State University (SPSU), Mathematics and Mechanics Department, Chair of Software Engineering in 2002; held an intern position in the Multimedia Information Modeling and Retrieval group at the research laboratory CLIPS-IMAG (Grenoble, France) in 2002-2003; obtained PhD in Computer Science from SPSU in 2010.