Ruslan Mitkov

Professor Ruslan Mitkov is a leading academic at Lancaster University in the School of Computing and Communications, focusing on Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics, and Translation Technology. His career spans roles as Director of the Research Institute of Information and Language Processing at the University of Wolverhampton and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Alicante.

• PhD: Technical University of Dresden (supervised by Nikolaus Joachim Lehmann)
• Education: Humboldt University of Berlin

Research interests include anaphora resolution, NLP for language disorders, translation memory systems, and text simplification. His work bridges technical innovation with societal impact, particularly in autism assistance through NLP tools.

Recent publications focus on cross-lingual NER, low-resource language models, and explainability in NLP. Key trends include biomedical NLP, multilingual benchmarks, and incremental learning for translation systems.

Scientific Recognition:

• Editor of the Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics
• Executive Editor for Natural Language Engineering (Cambridge University Press)
• Editor-in-Chief for John Benjamins' NLP book series
• Over 300 refereed publications

Leadership roles include founding the Erasmus Mundus Master’s Programme in Technology for Translation and Interpreting (EM TTI) and directing the Responsible Digital Humanities Lab. He has chaired major conferences like RANLP and HiT-IT, and will deliver keynotes at 20+ international events from 2023-2024.