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Press & Media Kit<\/span> Petro Orynycz<\/span><\/h1>

AI Engineer, Scientist & Creator<\/p>

AI engineer and computational linguist from Washington, DC. He builds AI for low-resource and endangered languages and teaches people to build real software with AI.<\/p>

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Name<\/dt>
Petro Orynycz (\u041f\u0435\u0442\u0440\u043e \u041e\u0440\u0438\u043d\u0438\u0447)<\/dd><\/div>
Role<\/dt>
AI engineer and computational linguist<\/dd><\/div>
Based in<\/dt>
Washington, DC<\/dd><\/div>
Education<\/dt>
Jagiellonian University, Krak\u00f3w<\/dd><\/div>
Research<\/dt>
Springer Nature (LNCS) \u00b7 I\/ITSEC<\/dd><\/div><\/dl><\/div>
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Petro Orynycz is a Hungarian American AI engineer and computational linguist from Washington, DC. He trains, fine-tunes and deploys large language models for heritage and indigenous language communities, and built the world\u2019s first Lemko translation engine. His research is published by Springer Nature and has been presented at I\/ITSEC, the world\u2019s largest modelling, simulation and training conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Petro Orynycz (\u041f\u0435\u0442\u0440\u043e \u041e\u0440\u0438\u043d\u0438\u0447) is a Hungarian American AI engineer and computational linguist from Washington, DC. He trains, fine-tunes and deploys large language models for heritage and indigenous language communities, especially in low-resource settings. His family\u2019s Lemko roots lead to villages in today\u2019s Poland and Slovakia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He built and deployed the world\u2019s first Lemko translation engine, LemkoTran, with published BLEU scores six times higher than Google Translate\u2019s Ukrainian service, and followed it with the Rusynator, an AI translator into Rusyn for Slovakia. His research appears in Springer Nature\u2019s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (HCI International 2022 and 2023) and in the proceedings of I\/ITSEC, where he has presented his results. In April 2026 he gave a guest lecture on AI tools for Rusyn and Lemko at the Technical University of Ko\u0161ice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His career began in heavy industry as a language specialist and led through investigations work in the post-Soviet oil and gas sector, a global translation business serving clients such as BMW, Mercedes and Siemens, and contributions to the Google Translate project during its neural translation breakthrough. He went on to lead hundreds of linguists as a project manager and localization engineer at a defense contractor, and has worked as a senior software engineer at a Virginia enterprise for six years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He graduated from the Institute of East Slavic Languages at Jagiellonian University in Krak\u00f3w. Today he fine-tunes language models for low-resource and endangered languages, runs ByteClub.ai, a hands-on AI engineering program, and hosts heritage language meetups.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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