Organizers

Kurt Luther is an associate professor of computer science and, by courtesy, history at Virginia Tech. His research interests include crowdsourcing, social computing, and human-AI collaboration. He has led or co-led multiple crowdsourced digital history projects, including Civil War Photo Sleuth, The American Soldier in World War II, and Mapping the Fourth of July in the Civil War Era. He is also a co-author of The Collective Wisdom Handbook: Perspectives on Crowdsourcing in Cultural Heritage. 

Vikram Mohanty  is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Bosch Research and Technology Center, USA. His research focuses on building and studying novel human-AI collaborative systems for solving complex problems. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. As part of his research, he built Civil War Photo Sleuth, an online platform that combines crowdsourced human expertise and AI to identify unknown portraits from the American Civil War era.

Benjamin C. G. Lee  is an incoming Assistant Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington, as well as a Kluge Fellow in Digital Studies at the Library of Congress. He recently received his Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Washington. After graduating from Harvard College with an A.B. in Astrophysics and Mathematics, he served as the inaugural Digital Humanities Associate Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, as well as a Visiting Fellow in Harvard’s History Department. Ben also served as a 2020 Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress and the 2020-2021 Richard and Ina Willner Memorial Fellow in the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington.

Ioanna Lykourentzou  is an associate professor of collaborative technologies. Her research interests lie at the intersection of computer-supported collaborative work, crowdsourcing, and digital cultural heritage. She has led multiple digital cultural heritage projects, including the European Horizon 2020 project "Empowering reuse of digital cultural heritage in context-aware crosscuts of European history", and the EU FP7 project "Personalized Museum Exhibit Monitoring and Description Based on Individual Visiting and Cognitive Style".