One of Europe’s most prestigious honours in computer science

Professor Iryna Gurevych, Director of the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab at Technische Universität Darmstadt, has been named the 2025 recipient of the Royal Society’s Milner Award and Lecture. The Milner Award is one of Europe’s most prestigious distinctions in computer science and is presented annually by the Royal Society to an outstanding European researcher who has made substantial contributions to the field.

How AI Understands Entire Sentences

The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab at Technische Universität Darmstadt has officially transferred the stewardship and further development of Sentence Transformers, one of the world’s most widely used open-source libraries for semantic embeddings, to Hugging Face. The open-source software originated from research at the UKP Lab in 2019 and has since become one of the most important resources for artificial intelligence (AI) in language processing (Natural Language Processing, NLP). It enables entire sentences to be represented in such a way that computers can capture and compare their meaning.

AI with Confidentiality

Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders

We are pleased to share that 10 papers authored or co-authored by UKP members have been accepted for the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) in Suzhou. Congratulations to everyone involved!

We are delighted to announce that on July 4th, 2025, our colleague Tilman Beck successfully defended his PhD thesis »Context Matters – Analysis and Integration of Contextual Factors for Stance Classification Models«! Congratulations to Tilman and best wishes for his future career!

Cybersecurity and artificial intelligence

Prof. Iryna Gurevych, a renowned computer scientist from the Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), has received the first ATHENE Distinguished Professorship. This award recognizes her outstanding contributions to research in artificial intelligence and computational linguistics, and their application in cybersecurity.

We are delighted to announce that on May 20, 2025, our colleague Kexin Wang successfully defended his PhD thesis »Improving Dense Retrieval on Domain Adaptation and Decontextualization«! Congratulations to Kexin and best wishes for his future career!