Alíz Horváth has a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago and currently works as assistant professor of East Asian history and Digital Humanities at Central European University. She is an avid advocate of language diversity in digital humanities and serves as co-founder and chair of the DARIAH Multilingual DH Working Group.

She is a key researcher and DH coordinator in the FWF Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations, member of the editorial board for Asia Pacific Perspectives, a topic editor of the Asian and Asian Diaspora studies section of Reviews in DH, member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of OPERAS, member of the Scientific Committee of the overlay journal Transformations, and former contributor to the pioneering New Languages for NLP project organised by Princeton University.