Iryna Gurevych
Short bio:
Iryna Gurevych is a Full Professor (W3) at the Computer Science Department of the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany and head of the UKP Lab. She has a strong background in information extraction, semantic text processing, machine learning and innovative applications of NLP to social sciences and humanities. She is:
- Winner of the Royal Society Milner Award and Lecture 2025
- Member of the Leopoldina, German National Academy of Science
- Winner of an ERC Advanced Grant for the project “InterText – Modeling Text as a Living Object in a Cross-Document Context”.
- Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW).
- First Recipient of the “Spitzen Professur” by LOEWE in Hesse, Germany.
- Past-President of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
- Co-Director of the European Lab’s for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) NLP program involving the top European academics in Machine Learning.
- Founder and Co-Director of the Centre for the Digital Foundation of Research in the Humanities, Social, and Educational Sciences (CEDIFOR).
- Principal Investigator of the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, missions Security and Privacy in AI (SenPAI), Secure Digital Transformation in Health Care (SeDiTraH) and Automatic Vulnerability Scanning and Verification (AVSV)
- Founding Faculty and Principal Investigator of the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence, funded by the Federal State of Hesse.
- Principal Investigator of the LOEWE-Centers emergenCITY and DYNAMIC