DHLAB Alumni

• Sofia Ares Oliveira (2016-2020) – After a master project on cadaster image processing, Sofia joined the DHLAB as project engineer. Sofia worked on the READ European project, developed the dhSegment tool in collaboration with Benoit Seguin, and contributed to several other projects. Today, Sofia works at Arcanite Solutions as machine learning research engineer.

• François Ballaud (2016-2020) – François worked on the Venice Time Machine and the Time Machine projects as communication manager.

• Vincent Barbay (2017-2020) – Vincent joined the DHLAB as a software engineer on several occasions and worked on various projects, including the LinkedBooks project and the Sion time Machine. Today, Vincent works as a software engineer at Cybor SA.

• Laurent Bolli (2016-2017) – Laurent worked on several occasions with the DHLAB as designer and interface & user experience expert. In the context of the READ project, Laurent contributed to the design of a general public transcription service and to the development of interface strategies for the crowdsource-based transcription of handwritten documents. He was also responsible for the interface design for the LinkedBook project, and of the development of the visualisation material for the European Time Machine FET proposal. Laurent is now associate professor at HEIG-VD.

• Quentin Bonnard (2013) – Quentin did his Phd on human-computer interaction (Paper Interfaces: an HCI Approach to Geometry Education) at the Chili lab under the supervision of Pierre Dillenbourg and Frédéric Kaplan. He worked at the DHLAB as postdoctoral fellow on various HCI projects (software infrastructure of holographic showcases for ancient manuscripts, prototype of an embedded technology for digitizing books passively as they are being read). Today, Quentin is a freelance developer (Monsieur Cube).

• Cyril Bornet (2013-2017) – Cyril did his Phd on Narrative Recomposition in the Context of Digital Reading. Cyril was also in charge of the IT infrastructure supporting most research projects, and teaching assistant for the master courses in digital humanities. He is the founder of Cybor, and is today a senior software engineer at ELCA Informatique SA.

• Vincent Buntinx (2014-2019) – Vincent did his Phd on Analyse multi-échelle de n-grammes sur 200 années d’archives de presse in the context of the Algolingua project, before working as a post-doctoral research on the ScanVan project. Today, Vincent works as project manager at Formation continue UNIL – EPFL.

• Giovanni Colavizza (2014-2018) – Giovanni did his PhD on citation extraction and analysis in secondary literature on Venice History (Phd thesis: The Intellectual Organisation of History). This work took place within the scope of the Linked Books project which he coordinated, and during which was developed the Venice Scholar application. Giovanni also acted as project manager during the first years of the Venice Time Machine project. Today, Giovanni is assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam.

• Olivier Dalang (2014-2015) – Olivier worked as research assistant for the development of GIS projects and 3D architectural modeling. Today, Olivier is a GIS developer at OPENGIS.ch.

• Isabella di Lenardo (2014-2018) – Isabella joined the DHLAB as a post-doctoral researcher and worked as project manager for the 4D reconstruction of the Venice Time Machine and for the Replica project. Today, Isabella is a research scientist at EPFL-IAGS and is the coordinator of the Lausanne Time Machine project.

• Mélanie Fournier (2013-2014) – Mélanie worked at the DHLAB on ancient nautical charts and geographical information representation. Today, Mélanie works at IT IS GIS as GIS spécialist SIG.

• Nils Hamel (2016-2020) – Nils joined the DHLAB as a research engineer. He worked on the development – from both the theoretical and practical perspectives – of large-scale photogrammetry calculations, including in the context of the Scanvan project. He  developed the Eratosthene 4D server system. He also contributed to the Cross project Swiss In Motion, supervised student projects, gave several lectures in DH classes and was a teaching assistant of the Mapping Urban History class. Today, Nils works at the Swiss Territorial Data Lab.

• Dana Kianfar (2014-2015) – Dana worked as research assistant on document-retrieval and plagiarism detection using language models and machine learning as part of the Algolingua project. He is now a machine learning researcher at Qualcomm.

• Katerina Kunz (2014-2015) – Katerina worked as project manager for several research projects around archive digitization, including Vacheron Constantin, Musée de l’Élysée and the Venice State Archives. She is now an adviser working for the Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium in Prague.

• Andrea Mazzei (2013-2015) – Andrea did his Phd on Human Computer Interaction at the CHILI lab (Expanding Eye-Tracking Methods to Explain the Socio-Cognitive Effects of Shared Annotations) and joined the DHLAB as a post-doctoral researcher to work on applied computer vision, more specifically on handwritten character recognition and segmentation of ancient documents. He worked as a software engineer at Vizrt and is now CEO of Cortical Arts.

• Marc-Antoine Nüssli (2012-2013) – As a post-doctoral researcher at the DHLAB, Marc-Antoine worked on historical knowledge management based on semantic web technologies, with a focus on historical knowledge provenance. After several years at the BCUL, he now works at Datuman, a company he founded, on the design and development of digital solutions for knowledge management in the humanities.  

• Gaël Paccard (2016-2021) As an interface and graphic designer, Gaël  contributed to different projects at the DHLAB, including READ, Venice Time Machine,  Time Machine and ScanVan. Gaël works as an independent.

• Yannick Rochat (2012-2014) – Yannick did his PhD on Character Networks and Centrality (UNIL degree, co-supervision at DHLAB), before working as a post-doctoral researcher on an interface for large archives of newspapers owned by the Swiss newspaper Le Temps (project funded by the Swiss National Library). Yannick co-founded the Gamelab UNIL-EPFL and is now scientist at the College of Humanities of EPFL.

• Dario Rodighiero (2013-2017) – Dario joined the DHLAB as a doctoral student and did his Phd on Mapping affinities: visualizing academic practice through collaboration under the supervision of Boris Beaude and Frédéric Kaplan. After a first fellowship at MIT, today Dario is a research scholar at Harvard Metalab, a research unit dedicated to innovation in the arts and humanities.

• Matteo Romanello (2015-2020) – Matteo joined the DHLAB as postdoctoral researcher for the Linked Books project first, and for the impresso – Media Monitoring of the past project afterwards. Today, Matteo is Lecturer at Lausanne University and is the principal investigator of the SNSF Ambizione project Sophocles’ Ajax: a Commentary on Commentaries.

• Pierre Runavot (2016-2017) – Pierre joined the DHLAB as a doctoral assistant to develop new methods for the analysis of linguistic evolution using deep learning approaches in the framework of the Algolingua project. Today he is a data scientist at Kyriba.

• Benoit Seguin (2015-2018) – Benoit did his PhD in the context of the Replica project on the large-scale exploration of historical art collections based on machine learning and modern image processing (Phd thesis: Making large art historical photo archives searchable). He also developed the dhSegment tool with Sofia Oliveira. Today, Benoit works as an independent engineer specialized in the application of machine learning to cultural heritage material.

• Fouad Slimane (2014-2015) – Fouad worked as post-doctoral researcher to develop algorithms and tools for the processing of handwritten archive documents. He also contributed to the design of a web-based transcription and visualization interface for ancient documents. Today Fouad works as a researcher at the University of Fribourg.

• Orlin Topalov (2014-2019) – Orlin joined the DHLAB as a software engineer and worked on several projects, including Vacheron Constantin Chronogram, Venice time Machine and Garzoni, focusing mainly on the design and development of a web-based application for the visualization, annotation and exploration of historical documents. Today, Orlin works as a software engineer at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.

• Bastien Tourenc (2017-2018) – Bastien joined the DHLAB as intern and prolonged his stays as research assistant to work on the analysis of the transformation of the urban morphology of Venice from the study of the Napoleonic cadaster of 1808. He was also teaching assistant for the Mapping Urban History class. Today, Bastien is a doctoral assistant at the LARHRA laboratory.