is a Young Investigator at the Allen Institute for AI. Her research is in natural language processing and cultural analytics, and her interests include using computational methods to study stories, values, and healthcare, often in the setting of online communities. Her research also investigates the reliability of NLP tools when used for curated datasets and human-focused research questions. She earned her PhD in Information Science from Cornell University, was a Summer Fellow at ETH Zürich, has a master’s degree in Computational Linguistics from the University of Washington, and has spent time working on research teams at Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter. 

She will be discussing computational approaches to measuring storytelling and the creation and maintenance of story datasets.

https://maria-antoniak.github.io/ 

is an Assistant Professor in Creative and Cultural Industries, based in the School of Art History and Cultural Policy at University College Dublin. His research deals with music and art in contemporary algorithmic culture, focusing on the philosophical and technical foundations of algorithmic music composition, human-computer creative relationships and the intersections between art and technology in general.

He will be talking about "AI and Music: Where next?"

https://creativefuturesacademy.ie/team/dr-donal-fullam/

is a Reader (Associate Professor) in digital humanities at Loughborough University in the UK. She had expertise on born-digital archives and the issues of preservation/ access to these archives. Since 2020, she has been the UK PI for four externally-funded projects on Archives and Artificial Intelligence. These international projects aim to make digitised and born-digital archives more accessible to researchers, and to use innovative research methods such as AI to analyse archival data.

She will be talking about "Human-friendly AI to unlock digital archives."

https://www.lisejaillant.com/

is an Associate Professor of History in the Department of History and Geography at Clemson University. He is a digital historian with teaching and research interests that focus on the intersections of history and memory in the American West. He is the author of several digital history projects including, "Envisaging the West: Thomas Jefferson and the Roots of Lewis and Clark", “Horrible Massacre of Emigrants!! The Mountain Meadows Massacre in Public Discourse", and "Buffalo Bill’s Great Plains".

https://dougseefeldt.net/