Alexandra Ilie graduated from the Faculty of Letters at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, with a degree in Romanian Language and Literature – French Language and Literature (2014). She then completed two master’s programs at the same faculty: Translation and Terminology (2016) and General and Romanian Linguistics (2020). She earned her PhD in Philology with a thesis conducted under joint supervision between the Doctoral School of Philological Studies and the Doctoral School of Computer Science at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, titled Problems of Style in the Machine Translation of Literary Texts (A Romanian–French Study with Prospects for Expansion) (2025). To further deepen the computer science knowledge gained during her doctoral research, she has recently enrolled in the master’s program Innovation, Interoperability and Digital Transformation at the Faculty of Computer Science, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași.

She is currently a research assistant in the Department of Lexicology and Lexicography at the “Alexandru Philippide” Institute of Romanian Philology in Iași (of which she has been a member since March 2025), being involved in the program Tezaurul lexical al limbii române, being involved in two research projects of the Romanian Academy, CLRE – Romanian Electronic Lexicographic Corpus (which comprises 100 dictionaries from the DLR bibliography, aligned at both the entry level and the sense level) and in the project eDTLR – The Thesaurus Dictionary of Romanian Language in electronic form (which involves creating the electronic version of the largest Romanian dictionary, edited and published by the Romanian Academy (DA /DLR) between 1913 and 2010), holding the position of lexicographer–computer scientist. She is also a research assistant in the Department of Social and Human Sciences at the Interdisciplinary Research Institute of “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași. In addition, since 2020 she has been an associate university assistant at the Department of Romanian Studies, Journalism and Communication Sciences and Comparative Literature where she conducts seminar activities for the courses General Linguistics and Romanian Syntax, as well as practical classes in the Department of Romanian Language for Foreign Students, and within the Erasmus programs or the Summer Schools organized by UAIC.