Mirella Lapata

SVP, AI Research

Mirella Lapata, FRSE, stands at the forefront of Natural Language Processing and generative AI innovation. As a distinguished professor at the University of Edinburgh, she ihas transformed how machines comprehend, reason with, and generate human language. Her groundbreaking contributions have earned her the prestigious British Computer Society Karen Spärck Jones Award and election to the Academia Europaea.

Professor Lapata drives AI innovation through multiple leadership roles, serving as Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in NLP and as a Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellow. Her founding of the Edinburgh Laboratory for Integrated Artificial Intelligence (ELIAI) and strategic collaborations with tech leaders like Google DeepMind and Amazon demonstrate her ability to translate cutting-edge research into practical applications.

At Multiscale, Professor Lapata’s pioneering work in AI and language understanding is instrumental in decoding complex biological data across diverse life forms. Her expertise in developing sophisticated AI systems that can interpret and generate complex information is helping revolutionise our understanding of biological systems, from microscopic organisms to human disease.