She worked as Associate Professor at Higher School of Economics (Moscow) and Advisor to Director for Online Media and Research Fellow at the Centre of Semantic Technologies (Higher School of Economics, Moscow). Irina holds the Candidate of Science in System Analysis degree from Baltic State Technical University (St.Petersburg). She also worked as Associate Professor of Information Systems and Computer Technology in Baltic State Technical University. Her major research interests are focused on Open Knowledge, Open Science, Data Science, Semantic Web, Linked Data, Open Data and the development of Intelligent Systems.