Lidia Oshlyansky
Lidia started her professional career as a Social Worker and then moved into Computer Science - from database programming and architecture to Human Computer Interaction. Her career in HCI has taken her through various roles and companies. She has worked for dot coms such as Orbitz.com and Cars.com, as a consultant in the financial sector, in an agency environment where clients included WWF.org, Royal Mail and the UK Department of Health. Most recently she has worked as a User Researcher for Nokia and now Google. At Google she has been primarily responsible for research for AdSense. She recently moved onto the Emerging Markets team where she will lead research efforts. She also gets involved with a wider range of European based research projects such as those helping the YouTube and Google Product Search teams. Lidia completed her PhD in HCI in the UK where she has been working and living the last 8 years until recently relocating to Stockholm.
