David Bamman is an assistant professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, where he applies natural language processing and machine learning to empirical questions in the humanities and social sciences. His research involves adding linguistic structure (e.g., syntax, semantics, coreference) to statistical models of text. Before Berkeley, Bamman received his PhD at Carnegie Mellon (School of Computer Science, Language Technologies Institute) and was a senior researcher at the Perseus Project of Tufts University.

Bryan Wagner is Associate Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley. He received a PhD from the University of Virginia before coming to Berkeley in 2002. His research focuses on African American expression in the context of slavery and its aftermath, and he has secondary interests in legal history and critical theory.

Niek Veldhuis is Professor of Assyriology in the Department of Near Eastern Studies. His work concentrates on ancient Mesopotamian school texts (lexical texts) that taught scribal students how to read and write cuneiform (3,200 BCE - 0). He is on the steering committee of the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (http://oracc.org) and is co-director of the Berkeley Prosopography Services (http://berkeleyprosopography.org/), in addition to serving on the Berkeley Digital Humanities Council.

Francesco Spagnolo is the Curator of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and a Lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a host for the cultural programs of Italian National Radio (RAI) in Rome.

Cathryn Carson is a historian and ethnographer of contemporary science and technology. Before getting her PhD in history, she was trained in computational condensed matter physics. As Associate Dean of Social Sciences, she built D-Lab, which opened in 2013 and serves social scientists (and others) across campus doing data-intensive research. Her historical research is on Heidegger and science, including theoretical physics and conceptions of data and on risk and simulations in nuclear waste management.

Edmund Campion is currently Professor of Music Composition and Director at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has received the American Rome Prize, the Lili Boulanger Prize, The Paul Fromm Award at Tanglewood, the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and, most recently, a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Scott Paul McGinnis is a Ph.D. candidate in history, one of the coordinators for the DH Working Group, and a GSR for DH at Berkeley and the D-Lab.