Team
The researchers, engineers, and scholars driving our work at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cultural heritage.
Dr. Todd Presner
Director
Professor of European Languages and Transcultural Studies and Digital Humanities at UCLA
2016–Present
Dr. Rachel Deblinger
Research Affiliate
Documenting Global Voices, UCLA Library
2011–Present
Dr. Ulysses Pascal
Postdoctoral Researcher
UCLA ELTS and Digital Humanities
2024–Present
Dr. Kathryn Huether
Research affiliate
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Antisemitism Studies at UCLA’s Initiative to Study Hate and the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies
2026–Present
Aileen Tang
Technical Lead
UCLA
2021–Present
Anna Bonazzi
Graduate Student Researcher
UCLA ELTS
2019–Present
Sophia Toubian
Graduate Student Researcher
PhD Candidate in Information Studies at UCLA
2024–Present
Shae Himmelberger
Graduate Student Researcher
UCLA Political Science, Theory Subfield
2025–Present
Justine Li-Wu
Undergraduate Student Researcher
UCLA Statistics and Data Science, Minor in Data Science Engineering
2025–Present
Elliot Cao
Undergraduate Student Researcher
UCLA Computer Science, Double major in Applied Mathematics
2023–Present
Billy Peir
Undergraduate Student Researcher
UCLA Data Theory, Minor in Bioinformatics
2023–Present
Bogdan Yaremenko
Undergraduate Student Researcher
UCLA Computer Science
2026–Present