Laure Thompson
Research Software Engineer at The Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolLaure Thompson is a research software engineer at Princeton’s Center for Digital Humanities who brings 15 years of experience at the intersection of NLP, machine learning, and cultural analytics. She builds tools and methodologies that enable scholars to probe large cultural heritage corpora—from science fiction and medieval manuscripts to avant-garde journals and ancient gems—and studies what computational models can learn and how to steer those learnings. A former assistant professor at UMass Amherst with a PhD from Cornell, she combines rigorous research practice with practical engineering to make ML methods accessible and auditable for humanities scholarship. Her background includes systems and verification work at Microsoft and production tooling at Google, reflecting a rare blend of formal methods, software engineering, and domain-focused data analysis.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Cum Laude at University of WashingtonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (38)
perl10
invariants10
uid10
unique-id10
sketchup10
digital-humanities9
prosody9
java9
text-analysis9
verification9
csharp9
eiffel9
django8
machine-learning8
solr8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Princeton-CDH/corppa
Mar 2024 - Apr 2025
Discovering patterns in poetry’s data with machine learning; software for use with Princeton Prosody Archive (PPA) full-text corpus
Contributions:198 reviews, 76 PRs, 233 pushes in 1 year
digital-humanitiesocrpython
laurejt/authorless-tms
Jun 2018 - May 2020
Repository for code and metadata to support work described in "Authorless Topic Models: Biasing Models Away from Known Structure"
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 11 months
metadatatopic-models
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