People @ CIDR

Vijoy Abraham is Assistant Director and Head of the Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research where he rallies together a team of social science and humanities scholars in support of digital research projects. He also works to analyze and implement new services for provisioning Stanford Libraries’ data collections to our research community through working relationships with colleagues within the Libraries and across the University’s research and data infrastructure teams.

As a Research Data Curator in the Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research (CIDR), Kate helps preserve and document data that the library has acquired. Her goal is to ensure that the library’s data collections are discoverable and reusable by the university community. Kate specializes in the curation and management of social science and humanities data.

Part of the CIDR developer team, Peter helps to build scholarly resources through the application of machine learning, web-based visualization, and other methods of digital analysis to complex cultural, historical and sociological data.

Quinn specializes in non-English data and natural-language processing in Python. For almost 20 years, Quinn has regularly scanned and digitized texts in a variety of languages, and often consults on issues related to OCR (optical character recognition, for printed texts) and HTR (handwritten text recognition), and metadata creation for text corpora.

Claudia Engel collaborates with students and faculty on digital research projects in the Anthropology Department, where she also has a lecturer appointment and teaches courses on GIS and Digital Methods.

Based jointly in CIDR and in the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), Alix specializes in working with scholars to ensure their digital scholarship is sustainable and responsibly maintained for the foreseeable future. She also manages and develops the Libraries’ digital humanities collection.

Anne Ladyem McDivitt collaborates with the History Department to support their digital research, projects, and pedagogy. Anne Ladyem has a background in Digital History and specializes in digital storytelling.

Simon is part of the CIDR Developer Team, where he works on faculty-led projects that advance the humanities and social sciences through the development of innovative and sophisticated digital and computational resources and methodologies.