Petro Orynycz

Course Instructor

I am a scientist (ORCID iD 0000-0003-3094-9156), software engineer, computational linguist, localization and natural language engineer, Slavist, and Silicon Valley consultant. His research currently focuses on artificial intelligence (AI), neural machine translation (NMT), and hybrid systems to revitalize endangered, indigenous languages like Lemko. He received his degree in Russian at the Institute of East Slavic Philology of Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, where he worked for Google amid its 2016 neural machine translation artificial intelligence breakthrough. His engines were recently mentioned in the Cambridge University Press journal Natural Language Engineering (Volume 25, Issue 5, page 634). Mr. Orynycz also has two decades of transatlantic experience as a linguist specializing in Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Rusyn and Lemko for top language service providers, national defense, heavy industry, Raytheon, Amazon, Siemens, Mercedes-Benz, Daimler, investigators, philanthropists, and scientists.