Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank

Barbara Plank is Professor and co-director of the Center for Information and Language Processing at LMU Munich. She holds the Chair for AI and Computational Linguistics at LMU Munich and is an visiting Professor at the Computer Science department at the IT University of Copenhagen. Her MaiNLP research lab (Munich AI and NLP lab, pronounced “my NLP”) focuses on robust machine learning for Natural Language Processing with an emphasis on human-inspired and data-centric approaches. Her research has been funded by distinguished grants and awards, including an ERC Consolidator Grant, DFF Sapere Aude Research Leader grant, ELLIS Fellow, and several best paper awards. She regularly serves on international committees, including the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the European Chapter of the ACL, the Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) and Scientific Advisory Boards of Research Centers across Europe.