Ryan Heuser
Assistant Professor Of Digital Humanities at University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRyan Heuser is an Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge with over a decade of experience bridging literary scholarship and computational methods. Trained as an eighteenth-century literary historian (PhD, Stanford), he combines deep domain knowledge with expertise in NLP, network theory, visualization, and machine learning to study prosody, rhythm, genre, and the intellectual history of ideas. He helped found and direct research at the Stanford Literary Lab, served as a Junior Research Fellow at King’s College Cambridge, and worked as a research software engineer at Princeton’s Center for Digital Humanities, giving him rare fluency across research, pedagogy, and research-grade software development. His publications and edited volumes (including a 2023 Cambridge University Press contribution) reflect a sustained focus on how AI and computational methods reshape language and literary history. Known for computational approaches to rhythm and semantics, he brings both technical rigor and historical sensitivity to questions about how algorithms mediate cultural knowledge.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE/LETTERS, Bachelor of Arts - BA, ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE/LETTERS at University of FloridaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE/LETTERS, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE/LETTERS at Stanford University
Github Skills (145)
parser10
digital-humanities10
python10
twisted10
phonetics10
encryption10
nlp10
hyphenation10
finnish10
kivy10
tor10
linguistics10
privacy-enhancing-technologies10
solr9
django9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
quadrismegistus/slingshot
Oct 2018 - Mar 2021
Python wrapper for MPI to "slingshot" a small Python or R function against the Goliath of Big Data
Contributions:319 commits, 2 PRs, 303 pushes in 2 years 4 months
pythonmpidata-sciencepython-wrapperbig-data
quadrismegistus/cadence
Feb 2021 - Jun 2022
Rhythm analysis toolkit in Python
Contributions:128 commits, 7 PRs, 105 pushes in 1 year 4 months
nlprhythmpythonanalysis-toolkit
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