Iryna Gurevych

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 held adjunct professorships at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (UAE) and an affiliated professorship at INSAIT (Bulgaria). Her research focuses on natural language processing, machine learning, and interdisciplinary applications in the humanities and social sciences.

• Education: PhD in Computational Linguistics (University of Duisburg-Essen, 2003), Diploma in English and German Linguistics (State University of Vinnytsia, Ukraine, 1998)

Her research interests span large language models, AI safety, responsible AI, argument mining, and semantic text processing, with emphasis on cross-disciplinary integration of NLP in social sciences and humanities.

She has received prestigious awards including the Royal Society Milner Award (2025), ERC Advanced Grant (2022), LOEWE-Spitzen-Professur (2021), ACL Fellow (2020), and early-career recognitions like the Lichtenberg and Emmy-Noether prizes (2007-2008). She is a member of the Academia Europaea, Leopoldina, and Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

As a principal investigator, she leads missions in AI security and privacy at ATHENE, contributes to the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence, and directs CEDIFOR. Her leadership roles include past-Presidency of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and co-direction of the ELLIS NLP program.