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Lauren Tilton is the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in Liberal Arts and Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Richmond, where she chairs the Department of Rhetoric & Communication Studies and directs the Center for Liberal Arts and AI (CLAAI). Her research analyzes, develops, and applies multimodal AI to the study of media. She has co-authored several books, including Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images (MIT Press), and has served as President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).

Lauren Tilton is the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in Liberal Arts and Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Richmond, where she chairs the Department of Rhetoric & Communication Studies and is the inaugural Director of the Center for Liberal Arts and AI (CLAAI). Her research analyzes, develops, and applies multimodal AI to the study of media. She is the co-author of Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images (MIT Press), Layered Lives (Stanford University Press), and Humanities Data in R (Springer), and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Computational Humanities Research (Cambridge University Press). She has also co-edited several volumes and journal special issues, and has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles, conference papers, and book chapters. She has secured more than $4 million in external grants and fellowships from funders including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Schmidt Sciences, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Library of Congress. She has delivered more than 150 keynote addresses, invited talks, workshops, and conference presentations internationally, including in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. She has served as President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). She holds a PhD in American Studies from Yale University.