Johannes Bjerva

Professor · Natural Language Processing

Linguistically grounded NLP for trustworthy AI.

I am Professor of Natural Language Processing at Aalborg University and lead AAU-NLP. My research develops language technologies that remain reliable, secure, and trustworthy across languages, cultures, and increasingly complex AI systems.

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Johannes Bjerva
Aalborg University · Copenhagen

At a glance

Research funding

≈ DKK 35M

Portfolio anchored by three external and one internal excellence-based career grants.

Funding portfolio

Selected publication outlets

  • ACL
  • EMNLP
  • TACL
  • Computational Linguistics
  • AAAI
  • ICML

Peer-reviewed work across NLP, linguistics, AI security, and machine learning.

Selected publications

Selected highlights

Recent work

A selective timeline of research and career milestones.

  1. Typologically diverse evaluation

    Published in Computational Linguistics, bringing several years of work on defensible multilingual evaluation into one framework.

  2. Coefficient Giving · Formal semantics and AI safety

    Opened a new DKK 2.4M programme connecting formal semantics with multilingual AI-safety analysis.

  3. DFF Sapere Aude · TRUST

    Made it possible to establish a sustained programme in linguistically grounded language-model security.

  4. NLP Security and Ethics, in the Wild

    A TACL paper setting out a research agenda for security and ethics in real-world NLP systems.

  5. Full professor at Aalborg University

    Appointed full professor of Natural Language Processing, opening a new phase for NLP research at AAU Copenhagen.

  6. Novo Nordisk Foundation · (LM)²-SEC

    Gave a growing team five years to pursue security and privacy in multilingual language models.

  7. Carlsberg Foundation · Semper Ardens: Accelerate

    A formative DKK 5M award for multilingual modelling and the growth of the NLP environment at AAU.

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