Aaron M. Thompson is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures. His research interests include Modernist literature in Russia, the history of Slavic Orthodox Christianity and the Russian Orthodox Church, the influence of religious and secular philosophy on Russian literary culture, Natural Language Processing for Slavic languages, and computational approaches to digital textual analytics.

Jordan Buysse is a doctoral candidate in English at UVA. His dissertation, "The Word and the Bit: Information in 20th/21st Century Fiction," joins the recent history of the term "information" with literary aesthetics in order to assess the legacy and future of the technologized word. His teaching in the English department includes courses such as "The Literature of Artificial Intelligence" and "Writing about the Internet."

I am an urban and environmental planning Ph.D. student, and my research focuses on deploying new data and methods to address transportation sustainability and equity in cities.

Jennifer E. Stertzer is Director of the Center for Digital Editing and Director of the Washington Papers. With the Papers of George Washington since 2000, Stertzer has served as project manager of the Papers of George Washington Digital Edition, overseeing the conversion of legacy print volumes into a digital edition, developed Word-to-XML workflows, and is editor of the Papers of George Washington Financial Papers project. At the CDE, Stertzer consults on project conceptualization, technical solutions, workflow, editorial methodologies, and engagement strategies.

I received my PhD in Religious Studies from UVa in 2004 but have been working in Digital Humanties since 2000, first as Technical Director of the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library (THL) and currently as programmer for SHANTI @ UVA and the Contemplative Sciences Center. My initial focus at THL was in cataloging and digitizing Tibetan Buddhist texts. This work used XML, JS, and PHP technologies. Since joining SHANTI in 2012, I have been working in collaboration to develop the Mandala suite of research tools in Drupal and SOLR.

Tyler Jo Smith is an Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology in the McIntire Department of Art at UVA, and served as Director of the Interdisciplinary Archaeology Program (http://archaeology.virginia.edu/) from 2011- 2017. As a specialist in ancient Greek figure-decorated pottery, the archaeology of performance, and survey archaeology, she is involved in several DH projects connected to her work.

Alison Booth, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, specializes in transatlantic Victorian studies, biography, and women’s history as well as digital humanities. She is Academic Director of the Scholars’ Lab and director of Collective Biographies of Women (CBW), a database and study of networked nonfiction based on her book, How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present (U.