Iryna Gurevych awarded the 2025 Milner Award by the Royal Society

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Iryna Gurevych who heads the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab at the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt in Germany receives the prestigious Milner Award from the British Royal Society.  Prof. Gurevych is being honored for her significant contributions to Natural Language Processing (NLP) and AI, which »combine a deep understanding of human language and cognitive abilities with the latest paradigms in machine learning«, as the world’s oldest independent scientific academy announced in London. Professor Gurevych is the first female scientist from Germany and the first German university professor to receive the prestigious Milner Award from the British Royal Society.

Iryna Gurevych graduated from the State University of Vinnytsia, Ukraine with Diplom “with distinction” in English and German Linguistics in 1998 and obtained her PhD in Computational Linguistics / Dialogue Information Systems from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany in 2001. Professor Iryna Gurevych is a member of Leopoldina, the first LOEWE top professor in the state of Hesse, a founding member of the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI) and founder and head of the “Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab” at TU Darmstadt. She is also Principal Investigator of several research networks, including the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE. In 2022, Gurevych was appointed a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. She is an adjunct professor at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in Abu Dhabi, UAE and affiliated with the newly founded AI research institute INSAIT in Sofia.

The Milner Award is presented annually to a European researcher for outstanding achievements in computer science. The winner is selected by the Council of the Royal Society on the recommendation of the Milner Prize Committee. The committee is made up of researchers from three European countries: Members of the Royal Society, the Leopoldina (Germany) and the Académie des sciences (France). The winner will receive a medal and prize money of 5,000 pounds (about 6,000 euros) and will be invited to give a public lecture on their research at the Royal Society. The prize is awarded in honor of Professor Robin Milner (1934-2010), a pioneer of computer science.