MBZUAI’s Iryna Gurevych wins 2025 Royal Society Milner Award

Summary

MBZUAI Adjunct Professor Iryna Gurevych has won the 2025 Royal Society Milner Award for her contributions to NLP and AI. The Milner Award recognizes outstanding European computer scientists and includes a bronze medal and a £5,000 honorarium. Gurevych's work focuses on processing big data with NLP tools, argument mining, and detecting misleading content. Why it matters: The award highlights MBZUAI's growing prominence in the international AI research landscape and Gurevych's work in making language models safer.