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 (112)
parser10
digital-humanities10
python10
encryption10
social-media10
nlp10
kivy10
natural-language-processing10
tor10
linguistics10
graphic9
solr9
django9
macos9
text-mining9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
quadrismegistus/logmap
Dec 2023 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 23 pushes in 2 years 7 months
quadrismegistus/poesy
Nov 2018 - Jun 2022
Poetic processing, for Python.
Contributions:49 commits, 2 PRs, 42 pushes in 3 years 8 months
pythonnatural-language-processingliterary-studieslinguisticsmetrics
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