Kaspar Beelen
Technical Lead Digital Humanites at School of Advanced Study, University of London
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKaspar Beelen is a Technical Lead in Digital Humanities based in London with nine years of interdisciplinary experience at the intersection of history, computational linguistics, and digital scholarship. He has led research and technical delivery across academia and national institutes, including roles at the Alan Turing Institute and the School of Advanced Study, driving projects like "Living with Machines" that combine large-scale text analysis with historical inquiry. Trained as a historian (PhD) and seasoned in NLP and informatics from postdoctoral work in Toronto and Amsterdam, he translates scholarly questions into reproducible, data-driven workflows and tooling. Known for bridging domain expertise and engineering, he excels at steering teams that deploy robust research infrastructure while keeping interpretability and provenance front and center.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master, HISTORY, Master, HISTORY at Universiteit Antwerpen
Github Skills (36)
digital-humanities10
spatial-data10
machine-vision10
maps9
python9
computer-vision9
data-analysis8
scale8
pipeline8
machine-learning8
pytorch8
image-processing8
deep-learning7
object-detection7
creative-commons6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kasparvonbeelen/ghi_python
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
Programming for Historians
Contributions:140 commits, 4 PRs, 114 pushes in 1 year 3 months
analysispythondata-analysiscompetitive-programming
kasparvonbeelen/heritageweaver
Sep 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:3 PRs, 84 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
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