Dirk Hovy is associate professor of Computer Science at Bocconi University and director of the Data and Marketing Insights research unit at the Bocconi Center for Data Science and Analytics. His research focuses on computational social science. He is interested in what language can tell us about society and what computers can tell us about … Read more
Miriam Metzger is professor of communication and information technologies at UC Santa Barbara. Her research studies the ways in which digital communication technologies challenges our ability to evaluate the information we find online and consider the privacy decisions we must make accordingly. Dr. Metzger has also delivered numerous keynote speeches around the world on topics … Read more
Martina Raponi is a writer, curator and artist. She is currently employed by the Willem de Kooning Academy as art theory tutor, and will be joining the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam as Senior Researcher. Her research focuses on Noise.
Emar Maier is associate professor at the University of Groningen, affiliated with both the Philosophy and Linguistics Departments. His research interests include fiction and imagination; (super) semantics of pictures, comics, and film; discourse and dynamic semantics; reported speech and quotation; indexicals and expressives; and the semantics of attitudes and attitude ascriptions.
Iris Hendrickx is post-doc researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen in the field of computational linguistics and digital humanities. Her interests include machine learning, lexical and relational semantics, text normalization, and text mining.
Massimiliano Spotti is Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies and deputy director of Babylon, Centre for the Study of Superdiversity at the Faculty of Humanities and Digital Sciences at Tilburg University. His work focuses on three areas: (1) asylum 2.0 and the implication of the internet for the process of asylum seeking practices … Read more
Eric Postma is a Professor in Artificial Intelligence at the Cognitive Science & AI department at Tilburg University and at the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, a joint initiative of Eindhoven University of Technology and Tilburg University. His main interest are human perception and cognition, and the modelling thereof with AI techniques.
Jessie Labov is a Resident Fellow in the Center for Media, Data and Society, as well as the Director of Academic and Institutional Development at McDaniel College Budapest. At Central European University, she worked as a member of the Digital Humanities Initiative, and the Text Analysis Across Disciplines Initiative. In addition to writing on Polish film, Yugoslav popular culture, … Read more
Susan Aasman is full Professor of Digital Humanities and works in the Department for Media and Journalism Studies at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen. Her field of expertise is media history, including the emerging fields of internet history and web archeology. In addition, she is the director of the Centre for … Read more
Menno van Zaanen is Professor in Digital Humanities at North-West University Potchefstroom, with a background in computational linguistics. In the past, he mainly focused on unsupervised grammatical inference and applied machine learning to sequential data (in particular natural language). He worked on multi-modal structuring of data (music) and multi-modal information retrieval, as well on proofing … Read more