Galina Kozyreva received her Diploma degree in Computer Science from the Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace and Instrumentation in 2015. Her major specialisation is automated information processing and control systems. Since then she has been working as software engineer in various roles. This included work on databases, security, reactive software, micro services and data mining.

In March 2021, she joined the chair as research assistant, where she works in the area of domain-specific languages and compilers, with focus on MLIR progressive lowering and advanced optimizations for parallel and emerging computing systems.