Bio

Gabriel H. Pizzorno is Senior Lecturer on History at Harvard University, where he directs the Program in Digital History and serves as faculty chair of Harvard’s Digital Scholarship Group, coordinating digital pedagogy and research infrastructure across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

His research advances both historical interpretation and the computational modeling of cultural data, bridging humanistic inquiry with methods from machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision to extract and analyze complex historical datasets. He has co-led major international projects such as the Documentary Archaeology of Late Medieval Europe and the Holocaust Materialities Network, which develop statistical modeling, ontology design, and knowledge graph techniques to transform heterogeneous archival sources into interoperable, machine-actionable data. These initiatives open new possibilities for large-scale cultural heritage analysis across time, language, and geography.

Pizzorno has also contributed to broader AI research, including work on identity matching in historical records, ensemble learning for low-resource corpora, and enhancing large language models through retrieval-augmented generation. His projects have been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and recognized with awards such as the Medieval Academy of America’s Digital Humanities and Multimedia Prize. A dedicated teacher and mentor, he has developed and taught courses ranging from ancient history to computational methods and machine learning, and has supervised student research across disciplines including applied mathematics, computer science, and economics.