Anna Korhonen

Anna Korhonen is a Professor of Natural Language Processing at the University of Cambridge. She co-directs the Language Technology Laboratory (LTL), leads the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA), and co-founded the Institute for Technology and Humanity. A Senior Research Fellow at Churchill College, she is also a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and ELLIS, and a former Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute.

Her research focuses on advancing NLP and AI technologies with a human-centric, equitable approach, emphasizing multilingualism, interpretability, and applications for social and global good (e.g., health, climate, biomedical sciences). She collaborates across disciplines, integrating insights from cognitive, social, and creative intelligence.

Scientific awards include:

• Royal Society University Research Fellowship
• JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Google Faculty Award
• ACL and ELLIS Fellowships
• Senior Research Fellowship at Churchill College
• EPSRC, MRC, and Innovate UK grants

She supervises PhD students via the University of Cambridge and the European ELLIS PhD program, with research projects spanning text mining, conversational AI, and low-resource language technologies.