Anna Korhonen

Prof. Anna Korhonen is Professor of Natural Language Processing at the University of Cambridge, where she co-directs the Language Technology Laboratory (LTL). She is the co-founder and director of the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA), a university-wide centre established to transform human insight into artificial intelligence that better serves people, society, and the planet. She also co-founded and co-directs the Institute for Technology and Humanity, which examines and shapes technological transformations and their societal and environmental impacts.

She is a Senior Research Fellow of Churchill College, a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), a fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), and an elected member of Academia Europaea. Her research focuses on Natural Language Processing and related areas of artificial intelligence, with an emphasis on developing, adapting, and applying computational techniques to support intelligent applications. Her work promotes responsible, human-centric technologies grounded in the cognitive, social, and creative dimensions of human intelligence, with particular attention to applications that advance social and global good. Much of her research is interdisciplinary and involves collaboration across a wide range of academic fields.