Rodrigo Vega Sanchez

Rodrigo Vega Sanchez serves as a Senior Research Fellow at Lancaster University's School of Global Affairs, specializing in Digital Humanities and History. His academic work bridges historical scholarship with computational methodologies, focusing particularly on colonial history of the Spanish Empire.

His research interests include:

• Digital Humanities methodologies for historical analysis
• Socioeconomic history of colonial New Spain
• Artificial Intelligence applications in historical document processing
• Handwritten Text Recognition systems for archival materials
• Digital preservation of historical research data

Dr. Vega Sanchez currently leads the major research project "The New Spain Fleets: Delving into three centuries of socioeconomic colonial history through Artificial Intelligence" (March 2024-February 2029), which applies AI techniques to analyze centuries of shipping records from the Spanish colonial period. His work represents a significant contribution to computational history methodology.

He actively participates in academic knowledge exchange through workshops on AI and Handwritten Text Recognition for Humanities Research, delivers invited talks on projects like "Proyecto Flotas de la Nueva España," and contributes to discussions about research data preservation with the Digital Humanities Centre.