PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Larisa Ivanova

Larisa Ivanova is an AI researcher whose work spans computational linguistics, multi-agent systems and network science. After studying linguistics at Moscow State University, she earned an MSc in Language Science and Technology at Saarland University in 2025 and worked as a student assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics from 2022 to 2024. As a research associate at DFKI from 2024 to 2026, she co-authored The Power of Stories, a 2025 study of how narrative priming shapes cooperation among LLM agents in public goods games. Since 2026, she is a research associate at the Hertie Institute for AI in Brain Health in Tübingen, where her remit is to design and evaluate learning environments that help students and educators engage with AI critically.

Now at
Hertie Institute for AI in Brain Health

Timeline

  1. 2011–2015

    Linguistics at Moscow State

    She studies linguistics at Moscow State University from 2011 and earns a BA in linguistics and digital humanities in 2015.

  2. 2021–2025

    Master's at Saarland University

    She starts the MSc programme in Language Science and Technology at Saarland University in 2021 and completes the degree in 2025.

  3. 2022–2024

    Student assistant at Max Planck

    From 2022 to 2024, she works as a student assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.

  4. 2024–2026

    Research associate at DFKI

    She joins the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) as a research associate in 2024, in the Department of Data Science and its Applications, and stays until 2026. Her research there spans computational linguistics, multi-agent systems and network science, with interests in NLP, neural and symbolic representations of knowledge, and graph machine learning.

  5. May 2025

    Narrative priming for LLM agents

    In May 2025, she and six co-authors post The Power of Stories on arXiv, a study of LLM agents that play a repeated public goods game after being primed with stories about teamwork. The experiments find that story-based priming significantly affects negotiation strategies and success rates, and that common stories improve collaboration.

  6. October 2025

    Published at NETGCOOP 2025

    A version titled The Power of Stories: Narrative Priming in Multi-Agent Networked Public Goods Games appears in the proceedings of NETGCOOP-2025, the 12th International Conference of Networks, Games, Control and Optimization, held in Bilbao, Spain, in October 2025. Springer publishes the proceedings in Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

  7. Since 2026

    Research associate at Hertie AI

    She joins the Hertie Institute for AI in Brain Health at the University of Tübingen in 2026 as a research associate in the Translational Barriers research group. Her remit is to design, build and evaluate learning environments and educational resources that help students and educators engage with AI critically and responsibly, with a focus on medical and interdisciplinary contexts.

Career

  1. Since 2026Hertie Institute for AI in Brain HealthResearch associate
  2. 2024–2026DFKIResearch associate
  3. 2022–2024Max Planck Institute for InformaticsStudent assistant

Education

  1. 2025Saarland UniversityMSc
  2. 2015Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityBA

From the biography.

  1. 11% of AI doctorate holders from 2010 to 2016 founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduationIncludes University of Tübingen. We estimate how often AI doctorate holders founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduation, how waiting times compare between founders and top jobs, and which universities trained the most.
  2. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes University of Tübingen. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes University of Tübingen. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes University of Tübingen. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Larisa Ivanova — Data Science and its Applications dsa.dfki.de. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Larisa Ivanova hertie.ai. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. The Power of Stories: Narrative Priming Shapes How LLM Agents Collaborate and Compete (HTML version) arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. [2505.03961] The Power of Stories: Narrative Priming Shapes How LLM Agents Collaborate and Compete arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. The Power of Stories: Narrative Priming in Multi-Agent Networked Public Goods Games www-live.dfki.de. Checked 21 October 2026.