Giovanni Colavizza
Initiator
Giovanni is currently data scientist at The Alan Turing Institute. He did his PhD in Technology Management at the Digital Humanities Laboratory of the EPFL in Lausanne, working on methods for text mining and citation analysis of scholarly publications as part of the Linked Books project. He was for two years the operations manager of the Venice Time Machine, a large-scale digitisation and indexation project based at the Archives of Venice, and is cofounder of Odoma, a start-up offering customised machine learning techniques in the cultural heritage domain.
Giovanni is interested in how AI and data science can contribute to the scientific endeavour, and to society at large. He is particularly passionate about the humanities and the study of the past through an interplay of quantitative and qualitative methods.
Prior to joining the Turing, Giovanni has been a researcher at the University of Leiden (Centre for Science and Technology Studies), the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, and the University of Oxford. He studied computer science (BSc) and history (BA, MA) in Udine, Milan, Padua and Venice in Italy.
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Matteo Romanello
Initiator
Matteo is currently a research scientist at the Digital Humanities Laboratory of the EPFL, where he works in the Impresso project on methods for text mining and information extraction from a large collection of digitized newspapers. He obtained his PhD at the Digital Humanities department at King’s College London, under the supervision of Prof. Willard McCarty, with a thesis on methods for citation mining of classics Publications. He recently published with Gabriel Bodard an open access volume entitled Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber (Ubiquity Press, 2016).
Matteo is a Digital Humanities specialist with expertise in the areas of classics, archaeology and history. His main research interests include natural language processing and information extraction, especially their domain-specific applications; citation mining and analysis; and applications of semantic web technologies in the humanities.
Before joining the EPFL Matteo worked as a teaching fellow at the University of Rostock, as a researcher at the German Archaeological Institute, and was visiting research scholar at Tufts University (Perseus project).
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