Google DeepMind

Claudiu Musat leads the Google DeepMind Digital Ink team, focusing on stroke understanding and synthesis, as well as natural interactions with LLMs. Current research interests include multi-turn agent interactions, AI-driven UIs and UX, as well as broadly applicable NLP techniques. In the past, he led the AI collaboration between EPFL and Swisscom, and created an NLP startup in the EPFL ecosystem.

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy

Marco Passarotti is Full Professor of Computational Linguistics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy), where he is Director of the CIRCSE Research Centre and Coordinator of the MA in Linguistic Computing. His main research interests deal with building, using and disseminating linguistic resources and natural language processing tools for Latin. A former pupil of one of the pioneers of humanities computing, father Roberto Busa SJ, since 2006 he has headed the Index Thomisticus Treebank project. Between 2018 and 2023, he was the principal investigator of the LiLa project, an ERC-Consolidator Grant that built a Linked Data Knowledge Base of interoperable linguistic resources for Latin. He authored more than 200 publications.

Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany), co-affiliated with Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in Abu Dhabi (UAE) and INSAIT in Sofia (Bulgaria)

Iryna Gurevych’s many accolades include being a Fellow of the ACL, an ELLIS Fellow, an ERC Advanced Grant and the Milner Award of the Royal Society. She is Professor of Computer Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany, an adjunct professor at MBZUAI, UAE and INSAIT, Bulgaria. Her work in AI and natural language processing (NLP) combines deep understanding of human language with the latest paradigms in machine learning. She has made major contributions to establishing the field of argument mining and misinformation detection, among other topics.

HiTZ center, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU

Eneko Agirre is Full Professor of Informatics and Head of HiTZ Basque Center of Language Technology at the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, in San Sebastian, Spain.
Visiting researcher or professor at New Mexico State, Melbourne, Southern California, Stanford and New York Universities.He received the Spanish Informatics Research Award in 2021, and is one of the 95 fellows of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL). He was President of ACL’s SIGLEX, member of the editorial board of Computational Linguistics, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and Action Editor for the Transactions of the ACL. He is co-founder of the Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM). He is a recipient of three Google Research Awards and six best paper awards and nominations, most recent at ACL 2024. Dissertations under his supervision received best PhD awards by EurAI, the Spanish NLP society and the Spanish Informatics Scientific Association. He has over 200 publications across a wide range of NLP and AI topics, and has given more than 20 invited talks, mostly international.

Meta AI

Holger Schwenk is a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research in Paris focusing on Deep Learning for cross-lingual representations and parallel resources. Previously he was founder and Scientific Director of DeepLingo working on customised machine translation engines. Further assignments included: professor at the University of Le Mans from 2007 to 2015 and researcher at MateCat. Holger Schwenk was an early advocate of using neural networks for language modelling and machine translation.

University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt