George Mikros

George Mikros

Professor of Computational and Quantitative Linguistics

Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar

George Mikros is a Professor and the MA Program Coordinator for Digital Humanities and Societies at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar. Moreover, he has been a Lecturer in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, since 2013. Before his current roles, he spent two decades (1999-2019) at the University of Athens as a Professor of Computational and Quantitative Linguistics, where he established and led the Computational Stylistics Lab. Earlier, he worked as a researcher at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing, contributing to the development of foundational Modern Greek language resources and computational linguistic tools. His academic involvement extends to the Hellenic Open University, where he has been a Teaching Associate since 1999 and served as the Director of the Program "Spanish Language and Culture" from 2016 to 2019. Professor Mikros has been elected to the Council of the International Association of Quantitative Linguistics (IQLA) since 2007 and held the position of President from 2018 to 2021. His extensive academic record includes 5 monographs and over 150 peer-reviewed publications. He has delivered keynote addresses at more than 100 international events in over 50 countries across the world, covering topics related to AI, Digital Humanities, Large Language Models, the Role of Human Language Technologies in the Present and the Future of Greek Language, Forensic Linguistics, and Quantitative Linguistics.