I work on language and culture dynamics, using large
corpora, machine learning & AI, and cognitive experiments. Recently
I have been also working on, through various collaborations, on art
history and creative industries, and advising collaborative projects
between academia and the public and private sectors. I am affiliated as
a research fellow at the CUDAN
Cultural Data Analytics lab at Tallinn University, and at the Estonian Business School. I did my PhD
at the Centre for Language
Evolution of the University of Edinburgh, on lexical dynamics and
communicative need in language.
I also occasionally do workshops on
R, stats & data visualization, and
AI-related things (see more here).
2023
2022
2021
2020
2018
2017
I also teach workshops as an instructor in the private sector. Some
of these have been standalone events, some have been part of
conferences, summer schools or academic retreats. Feel free to get in
touch if you are interested in talking about organizing a workshop on
anything related to data science and statistics, artificial
intelligence, data visualization, R, corpus linguistics, digital
humanities, etc.
For more details and contact, head over to datafigure.eu
Academic teaching
Past teaching
Besides research and teaching and consulting and whatnot, I (fortunately) also do some other things, which mostly consist of dance (lindy hop, salsa, bachata), boardgames, and outdoorsy stuff (running, hiking).
In the more distant past, I worked as a teaching assistant in informatics at the University of Tartu (2015-2016), before that studied artificial intelligence and natural language processing at KU Leuven (MSc) and linguistics at the University of Tartu (BA, MA). I was also affiliated 2016-2019 as a (part-time) junior researcher with the University of Tartu EKKAM sociolinguistics group, doing data analysis and agent-based models. During my pre-PhD studies I also went on exchanges to the University of Iceland and the University Vienna, attended a dozen-odd academic summer schools, taught Icelandic to art students and Estonian to Norwegian teachers, worked as an assistant at the Estonian Wordnet project, and did internships at CrossLang NV in Belgium and at (the old) Linguistics Departent of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. In earlier years, I worked various studenty sort of jobs to support my studies (for a seller of swords, for a seller of cars, for a minder of horses and tourists).
Andres Karjus
PhD, MA
(linguistics), MSc (artificial intelligence)
Research fellow at CUDAN Open Lab,
Tallinn University
Senior research fellow at
Estonian Business School
Instructor
at Datafigure OÜ
Academic email: andres.karjus –at– tlu.ee
Business and workshop
inquiries: kindly contact via the Datafigure
email
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