Prof. Dr. Walt Detmar Meurers is a professor of computational linguistics at the University of Tübingen, where he moved in 2008 after eight years as a faculty member at The Ohio State University. In Tübingen, he is active on the steering board of the LEAD Research Network in Empirical Educational Science and was recently appointed to the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) as head of the new “Language and AI in Education” research group there. His research focuses on computational linguistic methods in education and second language acquisition research, and he likes to investigate basic research questions through the development of AI-based tools supporting real-life education needs. He has published widely on topics such as intelligent tutoring systems and their use in authentic school contexts, input enrichment and enhancement tools, the analysis of learner corpora and learning analytics, linguistic complexity and readability analysis, and automatic short-answer assessment.