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Iryna Gurevych elected to the Academia Europaea
ATHENE Principal Investigator Prof Iryna Gurevych has been elected to the Academia Europaea. This honours her many years of academic excellence and international visibility in the fields of Artificial Intelligence AI and Natural Language Processing. At ATHENE, Iryna Gurevych conducts research in the field of security and privacy in AI and the technical discovery of manipulated media content.
Iryna Gurevych is LOEWE Professor at the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt and founding director of the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab. She is also an adjunct professor at MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence) in the United Arab Emirates and at INSAIT - Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology in Bulgaria.
Gurevych is one of the world's leading researchers in the field of natural language processing (NLP). In 2024, she became the first German university professor and the first female scientist in Germany to receive the prestigious Milner Award from the Royal Society, the oldest independent scientific academy in the world. She is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
The Academia Europaea is a European non-governmental scientific society founded in 1988 and currently based in London
Prof. Iryna Gurevych on the website of the Academia Europaea
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