Project Collaborator
David Bamman
Biography
David Bamman is an Associate Professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, where he works in the areas of natural language processing and cultural analytics, applying NLP and AI to empirical questions in the humanities and social sciences. His research focuses on improving the performance of computational methods for underserved domains like literature (including LitBank and BookNLP) and developing new empirical approaches for the study of literature, film, and culture. Before Berkeley, he received his PhD in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and was a senior researcher at the Perseus Project of Tufts University. Bamman's work is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and an NSF CAREER award.