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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
Previously
2017-2022Lecturer (Assistant Professor),
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 24, 2026
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