Speakers
Steven Gray is a Teaching Fellow in Big Data Analytics at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. With over 10 years' professional software engineering under his belt, a background in Computing Science and Human Computer Interaction, he has built multiple award-winning systems and his work has been featured in various worldwide media outlets (CNN, BBC, etc). In recent years he has specialised in building mobile applications and systems that open up the world of data visualisation, mining and analysis to the masses. His current research focuses on distributed high-performance computing, machine learning, and analysing large datasets in real-time while visualising the results. He currently serves as a Google Developer Expert for Google Maps where he evangelises best practises using cloud computing and online mapping platforms. You can regularly find him either on twitter, @frogo, or on Google Plus as +StevenGray
Glenn Roe is Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the Australian National University. In 2011-2013 he held a Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities at the University of Oxford. Prior to that, he spent eight years as a Senior Project Manager for the University of Chicago’s ARTFL Project (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language), one of the older and better known North American research and development centres for computational text analysis. Glenn's research agenda is primarily located at the intersection of new computational approaches with traditional literary and historical research questions. Glenn has presented and published widely on a variety of scholarly subjects, from French literary and intellectual history, to the design and use of new digital methodologies for literary research, and the implications of large-scale digital collections on humanities scholarship.
Pablo Ruiz is a Research associate in Digital Humanities at Lattice, a research laboratory of Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He has designed and developed several applications in the domain of natural language processing, including a prototype for the lexical normalization of Spanish microblog (tweets), and a sequence alignment engine used in automatic subtitling. He currently works on text analytics technologies for Digital Humanities, especially entity recognition and linking, so as to extract structured and meaningful pieces of information from unstructured texts.