Iryna Gurevych#
Photo: Rüdiger Dunker
| Membership Number: | 7155 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/gurevych |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2187-7621 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2009 Full Professor (W3), Natural Language Processing, Computer Science Department, TU Darmstadt, Germany
- Since 2022 Adjunct Professor, Natural Language Processing Department, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu-Dhabi, UAE
- since 2024 Affiliated Professor, Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology, (INSAIT), Sofia, Bulgaria
- 2012 - 2014 Director of the Information Center for Education at the Leibniz Institute DIPF, Frankfurt, Germany
- 2008 - 2009 Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, TU Darmstadt, Germany
- 2007 - 2008 Independent Group Leader, Computer Science Department, TU Darmstadt, Germany
- 2005 - 2007 Post-doc Research Associate, Computer Science Department, TU Darmstadt, Germany
- 2001 - 2005 Post-doc Research Associate, European Media Lab (later EML Research), Heidelberg, Germany
- 2003 PhD in Computational Linguistics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- 1998 Diploma (distinction) in English and German Linguistics, State University of Vinnytsia, Ukraine
Fields of Scholarship
- Large language models
- AI for science
- Argument mining
- AI safety
- Responsible AI
- Machine learning (ML)
- Natural language processing (NLP)
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Royal Society Milner Award and Lecture 2025
- since 2024 Member of the Leopoldina, German National Academy of Sciences
- since 2022 Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), Technological Sciences Class
- 2022 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2021 First "LOEWE-Spitzen-Professur" (distinguished chair), awarded 2.5 Mill. Euro (3-5 awards per year across all disciplines in the federal state of Hesse, Germany)
- 2020 ACL Fellow
- 2008 Lichtenberg Interdisciplinary Professorship Award of the Volkswagen Foundation
- 2007 - 2008 Three IBM UIMA Innovation Awards related to NLP methods and research infrastructure
- 2007 Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group Award of the German Research Foundation
