Yorick Wilks is an emeritus professor at the University of Sheffield, a research associate of the Oxford Internet Institute, and a senior research scientist at the Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition. He has been elected a fellow of the American and European Associations for Artificial Intelligence and is a permanent member of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics. His accolades include the Antonio Zampolli prize and the British Computer Society's Lovelace Medal.