Jacobo Myerston

Jacobo Myerston is an Associate Professor in the Department of Literature and the Program in Classical Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He holds a Ph.D. in Ancient Mediterranean Studies from the University of Chicago, along with M.A. degrees in Greek Philology and Comparative Religions from the University of Tübingen, Germany. His research integrates computational sociology, digital humanities, and cultural studies to analyze ancient Greek and Sumero-Akkadian texts. He also explores Latin American intellectual engagement with antiquity.

Education:

• Ph.D., Ancient Mediterranean Studies, University of Chicago
• M.A., Greek Philology, University of Tübingen
• M.A., Comparative Religions, University of Tübingen
• Bachelor's in Classics, Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela

Research Interests: Myerston’s work bridges classical philology with computational methods. He develops NLP tools for ancient languages (e.g., greCy for spaCy), studies Mesopotamian-Greek cultural links, and examines how modern scholars reinterpret antiquity. His projects include NEReus, a named entity corpus for Ancient Greek, and CuneiML, a machine learning dataset for cuneiform analysis.

Publications: His recent works explore computational approaches to ancient texts, including LogogramNLP (2024) and Classification of Paleographic Artifacts (2024), alongside comparative studies like Language and Cosmos in Greece and Mesopotamia (2023).

Labs/Teams: Active contributor to open-source projects like greCy and collaborates on interdisciplinary initiatives in digital classics.