PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Alexander Gelbukh

Also known as Alexander F. Gelbukh

Alexander Gelbukh is a research professor at Mexico's Instituto Politécnico Nacional, where he heads a natural-language and text-processing lab. Before that, he earned a mathematics master's at Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1990 and a computer-science doctorate at an All-Russian institute in 1995. In 1998 he joined Mexico's National Researchers System, and in 2000 he became a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. He edited a special issue of Research in Computing Science on opinion mining in 2016, and a press-agency article from December 2016 described a system that learns from 10 million court rulings. In 2025 he co-wrote a paper on detecting AI-generated text with five others, and in 2026 he is credited with an overview of social support detection in social media.

Now at
National Polytechnic Institute and Center for Computing Research
Works
828
Citations
16,202
h-index
51

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1990

    A mathematics master's in Moscow

    He completes a master's degree in mathematics at Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1990.

  2. 1995

    A computer science doctorate

    He earns a doctorate in computer science from an All-Russian institute for scientific and technical information in 1995.

  3. 1997

    Heading a lab in Mexico

    He joins the Center for Computing Research of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional as a research professor in 1997 and heads its Natural Language and Text Processing Laboratory.

  4. 1998–2000

    Two national memberships

    In 1998 he joins Mexico's National Researchers System, and in 2000 he becomes a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.

  5. 2016

    Editing an opinion mining issue

    He edits Research in Computing Science volume 110, a special issue on opinion mining, and a press-agency article from December 2016 describes a system that learns from 10 million court rulings.

  6. 2025

    Detecting AI-generated text

    He is one of six co-authors of a 2025 paper on detecting AI-generated text in English and multilingual contexts.

  7. 2026

    An overview of SSD-2026

    He is credited with an overview of SSD-2026 at IberLEF 2026, which covers social support detection and target identification in social media.

Sources and credits

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  1. Investigador Alexander Gelbukh cic.ipn.mx. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. Research in Computing Science 110 rcs.cic.ipn.mx. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. Alexander Gelbukh -- Curriculum Vitae gelbukh.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. Alexander Gelbukh, el matemático ruso cumple 20 años de incentivar la ciencia en México web.archive.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. TechExperts(IPN) at GenAI Detection Task 1: Detecting AI-Generated Text in English and Multilingual Contexts aclanthology.org. Checked 15 October 2026.