Instructors
Alejandro Bia
(Miguel Hernández University, Spain)
Workshop: Digital XML-TEI Content Creation and Processing Aided by AI Tools
Alejandro Bia is a lecturer at the Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science and a researcher at the Institute for Mathematics, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, both at the Miguel Hernández University (Elche, Spain). He was Vice Dean of Business Statistics at UMH (2019-2023). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Alicante, a MSc and a BS in Computer Science from ORT University, a Diploma in Computing and Information Systems from Oxford University, and a diploma of Expert in Technological Innovation in Education from the Miguel Hernández University. Apart from UMH, he has also lectured for the Cultural Heritage Digitization Course at FUNED (2013-2020), the Master in Digital Humanities (2005-2011), and the Master in Web Technology (2005-2007), at the University of Castilla La Mancha, for the Department of Languages and Information Systems (2002-2004) and the Department of Fundamentals of Economic Analysis (2002) of the University of Alicante, and at ORT University (1990-2004). He is a frequent instructor of XML-TEI workshops and seminars in, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Uruguay. His lecture topics are: software engineering, project management, computer crime, computer forensics, information security, text markup using XML and TEI, web application design, digital libraries, concurrent programming, operating systems, computer architecture, computer networks and English for computer sciences. He was a member of the Research Network in Teaching Methodologies with ICTs of the University of Alicante (2013-2020). He has participated in several publicly funded research projects: Impact of the Human Factor in Software Modeling (AICO 2020), CHispa (program of the Agence Nationale de la Recherche de France and program ECOS of the Embassy of France in Uruguay – 2016-2017), the TRACEsofTools project: software tools for contrastive text analysis in parallel bilingual corpus (principal investigator, 2013-2016), the Digital Humanities Workbench (principal investigator, DHW) project (2012-2013), the Atenea project (University of Málaga, 2009-2012), the Bibliotheca Europa project (University of Alicante, 2006-2008), Digital Library of the National Library of Spain (as consultant, 2005) and in the METAe: Metadata Engine project (EU funded, 2000-2003). His current research interests are: systemic analysis of software development processes and optimization in engineering project management. Previously, he worked in the application of software engineering methods and techniques to digital libraries (his PhD Thesis topic), automatic alignment of parallel texts, text mining, computational stylometry, visualization methods applied to textual corpora, improvement of the design of document structures, multilingual markup languages, digitisation automation by computer means, digital preservation, and digitisation metrics and cost estimates. He also worked on neural networks training and developed the ALOPEX-B optimization method. From 1999 to 2004, he has been Head of Research and Development of the Miguel de Cervantes Digital Library at the University of Alicante, the biggest digital library of Spanish literary works and one of the first projects to use TEI in XML format. Previously, he has worked as Special-Projects Manager at NetGate (1996), and as Documentation Editor of the GeneXus project at ARTech (Advanced Research and Technology) (1991-1994). He is a long-time member of the DH community (since 1999) and has been elected member of the TEI Council for three periods (2002-2004, 2004-2006 and 2017-2018) and of the Executive Committee of the former Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, now EADH, for two periods (2004-2008 and 2008-2011). Until recently (2015-2019), he has been the secretary of the HDH association (Hispanic Digital Humanities) and is currently a member of the Internet Society (Spanish chapter).
Christian Casey
(Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Workshop: Measuring Manuscripts: Quantitative Approaches to Ancient Language and Script
Christian Casey is a postdoctoral researcher at the Freie Universität Berlin specializing in ancient Egyptian language, manuscript traditions, and the quantitative study of script. His work focuses on the formalization of philological reasoning: how writing systems change over time, how scribal habits can be measured, and how linguistic evidence can be modeled. He has published on Egyptian phonology, hieratic palaeography, and digital sustainability in the humanities. His research includes computational analysis of Coptic grapheme–phoneme correspondences, dimensionality reduction for the study of hieratic sign variation, and the development of open-source tools for collaborative manuscript annotation. This work has appeared in venues ranging from traditional Egyptological volumes to computer science workshops. Casey is Principal Investigator of the VolkswagenStiftung-funded project The Principles of Handwritten Script Evolution (2026–2028). He has taught graduate- and advanced undergraduate-level courses on manuscripts, digital humanities, and data sustainability, working with students from both technical and non-technical backgrounds. His teaching emphasizes structured experimentation, transparent methods, hands-on real-world practices, and the integration of computational tools into established philological and linguistic methodologies.
Carol Chiodo
(The Claremont Colleges, USA)
Workshop: Digital Curation and Cultural Heritage
Before joining Claremont, she was the Librarian for Collections and Digital Scholarship in the Americas, Europe and Oceania Division at Harvard University Library. She has taught courses and workshops on cultural heritage and emerging technologies at a number of universities in the U.S. and abroad, including Yale, Princeton, University of Franche-Comté, University of Leipzig, NYU Abu Dhabi, Jagiellonian University, and Babeş-Bolyai University. She currently serves on the boards of the Yale Graduate School Alumni Association and the Research Center for the Humanities at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. She is also a member of the Scientific Committee for the European Summer University in Digital Humanities, hosted by Babeş-Bolyai University. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University with a dissertation on the poetic use of the mechanical arts in Dante Alighieri’s medieval poem, the Divine Comedy.
More info: https://carolchiodo.com/
Katarzyna Foremniak
(Roche, Poland)
Workshop: Voices as Data: Computational Phonetics and Responsible AI for Cultural Soundscapes
Katarzyna Foremniak, PhD, is a computational linguist and phonetician with over fifteen years of experience as a researcher and academic teacher at the Department of Italian Studies, University of Warsaw. Her work bridges linguistics, phonetics, and natural language processing, with a particular focus on speech technologies and language data in cultural and applied contexts. She currently works as Content Designer and AI Readiness Specialist at Roche (Poland), where she supports the responsible integration of AI systems in business environments. She previously gained industry experience in the automotive sector, developing, implementing, and maintaining automatic speech recognition models and NLU systems. She has experience in designing and refining prompts for different large language models. She is the author of the five-volume grammar series Włoski w tłumaczeniach (“Italian in Translation,” A1–C1), later adapted for the German and Swiss markets as Satz für Satz. Italienisch, as well as over twenty scientific publications. She has extensive experience teaching linguistics and digital methods to interdisciplinary audiences.
Anna Kryvenko
(Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia)
Workshop: Big Data in the Chamber: Corpus-Assisted Studies of Parliamentary Discourse Across Time and Space
Anna Kryvenko is Research Associate at the Digital Humanities Group, Institute of Contemporary History (Ljubljana, Slovenia). She holds a PhD in linguistics and has over 15 years of experience teaching corpus analysis, discourse studies and lexical semantics at the university level. Her research interests include comparative modern diachronic corpus-assisted discourse studies with a focus on metadata-enriched transcripts applied to parliamentary discourse in times of crisis, wartime oral history, national identity and group belonging in the context of Europeanisation, master narratives, competing frames and multimodal metaphor in political discourse. Currently she is a researcher for the projects OSCARS Open Science cascading grant project Comparing agenda settings across parliaments via the ParlaMint dataset (ParlaCAP) (Horizon Europe) and Parliament in the Age of Europeanisation: the Czech Republic and Slovenia (ParlAgE) (ARIS, J6-60112) as well as the programme Digital Humanities: resources, tools and methods (ARIS, P6-0436).
She is a contributing partner for the ParlaMint-UA dataset under the ParlaMint project, a co-author of the digital textbook From the dispatch box: unlocking the potential of ParlaMint through noSketch Engine and TEITOK and an instructor for several workshops on corpus-assisted studies of parliamentary data delivered at the Digital Humanities Conference 2023, Digital Humanities Conference 2025, the Centre for Digital Humanities at Utrecht University in 2025 and the European Summer University in 2023.
Anouk Lang
(University of Edinburgh, UK)
Workshop: Critical AI and Large Language Models for Humanists
Anouk Lang is Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities in the Department of English and Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh, where she is also an affiliate of the Edinburgh Futures Institute. She is the co-editor of Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities in the Debates in the Digital Humanities series (with Gabriel Hankins and Simon Appleford, 2024), Patrick White Beyond the Grave: New Critical Perspectives (with Ian Henderson, 2015), and the editor of From Codex to Hypertext: Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (2012). Her research and teaching range over twentieth and twenty-first century literature, modernism, postcolonialism, reception studies and computational approaches to the study of literature and culture. She holds a BMus and a BA from the University of Sydney, a graduate certificate in Digital Humanities from the University of Victoria and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the English Association in the UK.
Yael Netzer
(Hebrew University, Israel)
Yael Netzer, Chief Director of Research, Center for Digital Humanities, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Archive Management at Edut 710; Consultant, Digital Humanities Lab, Haifa University. Netzer holds a PhD in Computer Science and Computational LInguistics, MA studies in Hebrew Literature at Ben Gurion University. In recent years, Netzer develops and implements methods for digital personal and non-institutional archives, and is most interested in knowledge representation for archives, libraries and for the humanities.
Jeremi Ochab
(Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Workshop: Introduction to Stylometry
Jeremi Ochab is an assistant professor at the Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, a member of the Computational Stylistics Group, and recently was a researcher at the language infrastructure program CLARIN-PL. He serves on the Scientific Board of Jagiellonian Centre for Digital Humanities. He graduated in theoretical physics and in English studies (specialized in translation). Focusing on interdisciplinary applications of mathematical tools (analysis of complex networks, analysis of time series, random matrix theory) and machine learning, he conducts research on methods of data analysis, neuroscience, as well as stylometry, and quantitative linguistics. He has lectured on Stylometry, Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, and Data Analysis, among others, and in the meantime, he has translated several popular-science books into Polish.
More info: https://computationalstylistics.github.io/
Voica Pușcașiu
(Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Workshop: Humanities Data and Mapping Environments
Voica Pușcașiu is a Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art History at Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca and is determined to broaden the classical curricula towards methods belonging to the Digital Humanities. Her main research interests are sociological approaches to art in public spaces and conceptualizing through data visualization, particularly digital interactive cartography.
Simone Rebora
(University of Verona, Italy)
Workshop: Distant Reading in R. Analyse the text & visualize the data
Simone Rebora is an associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Verona. As a postdoc, he worked at the Universities of Mainz, Bielefeld, Göttingen, and Basel. His main research interests are theory and history of literary historiography, reader response studies, and computational literary studies. His essays have been published in journals such as “PLOS ONE”, “Digital Scholarship in the Humanities”, and “Modern Language Notes”. In 2026, he will publish the monograph Computational Literary Studies. Theory and Methods (Routledge). He is currently chair of the “Digital Literary Studies” Special Interest Group (SIG-DLS) of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) and chairperson of the “Digital Comparative Literature” Research Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA DCL).
More info: https://www.dlls.univr.it/?ent=persona&id=19903
Mariusz Sozański
(Polish Air Navigation Services Agency, Poland)
Workshop: Voices as Data: Computational Phonetics and Responsible AI for Cultural Soundscapes
Mariusz Sozański is a DevOps expert with a background in computational physics. He currently works as Lead DevOps Architect at the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency, where he designs and oversees scalable, containerized infrastructures for complex distributed systems. With over twenty years of professional experience, he specializes in DevOps practices, Kubernetes-based architectures, and reproducible, cloud-native environments. He has worked in multidisciplinary, geographically distributed teams across Europe and the United States, contributing as an IT consultant, architect, and technical trainer. His expertise includes designing resilient infrastructures, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring operational reliability and scalability in high-demand environments. He regularly collaborates with international stakeholders and clients in English, Italian, Russian, and Polish.
Giovanni Pietro Vitali
(University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France)
Workshop: Distant Reading in R. Analyse the text & visualize the data
Giovanni Pietro Vitali is Associate Professor in Cultural History and Digital Humanities at Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University – Paris-Saclay University. Previously he was Marie Curie Research Fellow at University College Cork in collaboration with the University of Reading and New York University. His MSCA project, Last Letters from the World Wars: Forming Italian Language, Identity and Memory in Texts of Conflict, dealt with a linguistic and thematic analysis of the last letters of people sentenced to death during the First and the Second World Wars. From 2014 to 2018, he worked in France as a lecturer of Italian Studies at the University of Lorraine and the University of Poitiers. In 2018 he became an associate researcher at University of Oxford where he is the Digital Humanities advisor of the Prismatic Translation project.
More info: https://www.giovannipietrovitali.eu
David Wrisley
(New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Workshop: Humanities Data and Mapping Environments
David Joseph Wrisley is Professor of Digital Humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi. His research interests include comparative approaches to medieval literature in European languages and Arabic, digital spatial approaches to corpora, neural methods for handwritten text recognition across writing systems and open knowledge community building in the Middle East where he has lived and researched since 2002.