Andres Karjus

Dr. Andres Karjus is a Lecturer in Digital Humanities and AI at Tallinn University and Senior Research Fellow at Estonian Business School. As member of the CUDAN Cultural Data Analytics Lab, he bridges computational methods with humanistic inquiry through:

• 15+ years of language evolution research (PhD from University of Edinburgh)
• Foundational work in computational sociolinguistics and semantic complexity
• Innovative generative AI applications for cross-sector collaboration

Research Themes
His work merges machine learning with cultural analytics to study: social media language dynamics, AI's impact on creative industries, film festival networks, and computational approaches to art history. The 2023 fruit-SALAD dataset reveals visual similarity perception in AI models.

Scientific Contributions

• 2024: Polarizing social media analysis in Nature HSSC
• 2023: Small language challenges in immigration discourse
• 2021: Aesthetic complexity through compression ensembles

Education & Teaching
PhD from University of Edinburgh's Centre for Language Evolution, with prior studies at KU Leuven (MSc AI) and University of Tartu (BA/MA Linguistics). Teaches data visualization, R programming, and AI applications for humanities across Estonia and Europe.