Nicola Carboni

Nicola Carboni is an assistant professor at the iSchool at the University of Illinois. He works at the intersection of knowledge representation and data analysis, using computational methods for modelling, integrating and interpreting historical and cultural data. His current work focuses on spatiotemporal analysis of exhibitions information and on the investigation of temporal variables in literary sources. He previously worked on image globalization, on the semantic exploration of iconographical patterns and on data-driven analysis of Burckhardt’s epistolary corpus. Before joining the University of Illinois, he served as a postdoctoral researcher in digital humanities at the University of Geneva, Digital Humanities Fellow at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and Marie Curie Fellow at the National Research Center of France.