The Cultural Analytics Lab (CANAL) is a cross-faculty lab at the University of Amsterdam with the mission to co-develop and co-research culturally-aware AI methods from a perspective that is both critical and ethical.

We believe that cultural factors impact how we interpret data. Importantly, these factors can vary over time and place and existing methods for cultural analytics, including AI, generally overlook these factors. With CANAL we aim to develop methods that are truly culturally-aware.

The Lab

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Dr. Melvin Wevers (FGW, History)
Director

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Dr. Nanne van Noord (FNWI, Informatics)
Director

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Alexandra Barancová (FGW)
Junior Researcher

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Phillip Stenman Baun (FGW, History)
Visiting Researcher

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Wangyuan Ding (FNWI, Informatics)
Ph.D. Student

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Carlo Bretti (FNWI, Informatics)
Ph.D. Student

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Ruben Ros (Leiden, History)
Ph.D. Student

Steering Group

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Prof. Dr. Julia Noordegraaf

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Prof. Dr. Tobias Blanke

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Prof Dr. Marcel Worring

Contact

You can reach us through canal-lab [at] uva [dot] nl

CANAL is based at the the University of Amsterdam’s Bushuis.