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Shortest bio
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Dr Daniel Chávez Heras is a Senior Lecturer (≈Associate Professor) in Computational Humanities and AI Media in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London.
Short bio
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Dr Daniel Chávez Heras is a Senior Lecturer (≈Associate Professor) in Computational Humanities and AI Media in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London.
He specialises in the computational production and analysis of visual culture. His research combines critical frameworks in the history and theories of cinema, television, and photography, with advanced technical practice in creative and scientific computing, including applied machine learning technologies.
Medium bio
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Dr Daniel Chávez Heras is a Senior Lecturer (≈Associate Professor) in Computational Humanities and AI Media in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London.
He specialises in the computational production and analysis of visual culture. His research combines critical frameworks in the history and theories of cinema, television, and photography, with advanced technical practice in creative and scientific computing, including applied machine learning technologies.
Daniel works with cultural institutions such as the British Film Institute, the British Council and the BBC. He is the author of Cinema and Machine Vision: Artificial Intelligence, Aesthetics and Spectatorship (2024, Edinburgh University Press). At King’s, he is a fellow of the Digital Futures Institute, the Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a member of the Creative AI Lab and the Computational Humanities Research Group.
If you need a longer bio get in touch or read more about my work. And here is a Spanish version too, thanks to a recent visit to Mexico!