Hale Sirin

Hale Sirin is a Visiting AI Scientist at Schmidt Sciences, where she supports Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) and the broader mission of the AI and Advanced Computing Institute.

Alongside her role at Schmidt Sciences, Hale is an Assistant Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Center for Digital Humanities with a faculty affiliation at the Center for Language and Speech Processing in Computer Science. At Johns Hopkins, Hale’s research spans model robustness and interpretability in multilingual Natural Language Processing (NLP), computational narrative analysis and machine learning applications in cultural heritage domains. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at JHU where she focused on Computational Linguistics as applied to cultural heritage domains.

She enjoys being an active part of the research community in Machine Learning and the Humanities, currently serving in the program committee of the Workshop in Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities and ACL Special Interest Group on Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities.

She holds a PhD in Philosophy and Literature from JHU that focused on the epistemic role of method and data in the Humanities, and an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago.