Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych

Iryna Gurevych is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab at the Technical University (TU) of Darmstadt. She is an ELLIS Fellow and Co-Director of the ELLIS NLP Program. She is widely known for her fundamental contributions to and innovative applications of natural language processing and machine learning. Iryna Gurevych’s work has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Milner Award of the Royal Society, an ERC Advanced Grant, and the first-ever Hessian LOEWE Distinguished Chair Award. She has taught both foundational and advanced courses in NLP, Information Management, Ethics in NLP, and Introduction to Scientific Work. She founded and served as the spokesperson for two research training groups in NLP and Computational Linguistics and has supervised more than 25 PhD students.