Eneko Agirre is Professor at the University of the Basque Country, head of the HiTZ research center and member of  the IXA Natural Language Processing group. His research focuses on lexical and computational semantics, with applications in information retrieval and machine translation. He has produced more than 100 peer-reviewed articles. He has been president of the ACL SIGLEX, member of the editorial board of Computational Linguistics, and has received two Google research awards. He is currently an action editor of the TACL journal.