Melvin Wevers
Computational Historian 👨🍳🚀 at the University of AmsterdamScientific Director of the Humanities Labs, University of Amsterdam
News
- Since August 1, 2026, I am the Scientific Director of the Humanities Labs at the University of Amsterdam
- In September 2026, I am a visiting scholar at the D3 Center, Osaka University, hosted by Professor Noa Garcia
Currently working on
- constructing a dataset based on housing registry cards of the city of Amsterdam with Thomas Smits and Tim Verlaan
- analyzing historical botanical visual information with Luiza Teixeira Costa and Folgert Karsdorp
- prototype a model to capture information cascades in historical newspapers
Multimodal Machine Learning • Digital History • Cultural Analytics • Historical Advertisements • Digitized Newspapers