TU computer scientist Iryna Gurevych receives prestigious “Milner Award” from the Royal Society

TU computer science professor and hessian.AI founding member Dr. Iryna Gurevych is the first female scientist in Germany and the first female university professor to receive the prestigious “Milner Award” from the British Royal Society for her pioneering work in the field of automatic language processing (NLP). Gurevych heads the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) working group at the Department of Computer Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

As a scientist, research leader, mentor and science communicator, Gurevych has contributed significantly to the success of NLP and thus to the further development of automatic language processing. NLP stands for Natural Language Processing – an area of AI that includes language models for text generation (Large Language Models, LLMs) such as the chatbot ChatGPT. In her early work, she used Wikipedia as a rich data source for language processing and was responsible for groundbreaking research on text representations based on neural networks and parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large, pre-trained transformer models such as BERT. These form the backbone of today’s NLP technology.

You can read more about Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych’s exceptional track record and the Milner Award of the Royal Society on the TU Darmstadt website.

Photo: Rüdiger Dunker / TU Darmstadt