Andres Karjus
Associate Professor of Computational Data Science at the University of Tartu, Lecturer in Digital Humanities and AI at Tallinn University & Senior Researcher at Estonian Business School
He holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Edinburgh, an MSc in artificial intelligence from KU Leuven, and his BA and MA degrees are from the University of Tartu.
He researches questions related to language, culture, and society using a combination of text corpora, computational simulations, and human experiments. These approaches tend to produce a large amount of information – often too much to analyse qualitatively – which is where the careful application of machine learning, LLMs, and rigorous statistical modelling can help make sense of the data and enable prediction.
In the private sector, he has been teaching workshops on AI, R, and data visualization, works on fostering academia-industry collaborations, and has been active in science popularization, which earned him an Estonian Science Communication Award in 2024.
In the Deep Transitions group, he is currently engaged in data mining and text analytics for mapping the long-term developmental dynamics of industrial modernity in G20 countries, in the ERC funded “Rise and Demise of Industrial Modernity” (RiDe) project.