From Curiosity to Code: An ELIZA Student Featured in INGenie Magazine

What does it take to stand at the crossroads of language and artificial intelligence? For Iza Škrjanec, a doctoral researcher at Zuse School ELIZA (Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Learning and Intelligent Systems), the answer begins with curiosity, and a willingness to ask the questions that don’t yet have answers.

Iza was recently featured in INGenie, the magazine of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), in an in-depth interview that traces her academic path, her research at ELIZA, and her experience as an international researcher in Germany. The interview offers an inspiring look at how young scientists navigate the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, and machine learning, fields that are increasingly converging at the frontier of modern AI.

As part of ELIZA’s cohort of doctoral fellows, Iza embodies the school’s core mission: to cultivate the next generation of AI researchers through rigorous interdisciplinary training, international collaboration, and an environment where intellectual courage is valued above perfection. Her work touches on the ways machines process, understand, and generate language, a question that sits at the very heart of today’s most transformative AI systems.

👉 Read the full interview in INGenie magazine (page 42):
https://online.fliphtml5.com/azcn/096-805_INGenie_2026-9JcC/#p=42