Description

George Mikros is currently a Professor at the MA Program of Digital Humanities at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar. Since 1999 and till 2019, he has been a Professor of Computational and Quantitative Linguistics at the University of Athens, Greece. He is the Director of the Computational Stylistics lab. Since 2013 he is also Adj. Professor at the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA. He had the position of Research Associate at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing. He was part of research groups that have developed important language resources and NLP tools for Modern Greek. Since 1999 holds the position of Teaching Associate at the Hellenic Open University, and from 2016 till 2019, he was the Director of the Undergraduate Program “Spanish Language and Culture.” Prof. Mikros has authored 5 monographs and more than 80 papers published in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and edited volumes. Since 2007 he has been elected as a Member of the Council of the International Association of Quantitative Linguistics (IQLA). In the period 2018 - 2021, he served as its President. He is the keynote speaker in many international conferences, workshops, and summer schools related to Digital Humanities and Quantitative Linguistics. His main research interests are computational stylistics, quantitative linguistics, computational linguistics, and forensic linguistics.