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Rico Sennrich
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Associate Professor at University of Zurich
Sennrich helped popularize the way most modern language models divide text into reusable pieces smaller than words. This allows models to handle rare and unfamiliar words efficiently and became a foundational technique in machine translation and large language models.
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Background
Current role
Associate Professor Feb 2026-present
University of Zurich
University of ZurichPreviously
2017-2022Lecturer (Assistant Professor),
University of Edinburgh
University of EdinburghEducation
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Last editorial review: August 24, 2026