Dr. Andreas Vlachidis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Studies at University College London (UCL), Faculty of Arts and Humanities. He serves as Co-Investigator and Technical Lead of the Sloane Lab, Principal Investigator of the 'Text Analytics for inclusive AI education platforms' project, and convenor of the Alan Turing Research Interest Group – Humanities and Data Science. Previously, he held academic positions at the University of the West of England and University of South Wales. His educational background includes a PhD in Semantic Indexing of Archaeological Grey Literature, MSc, and dual BSc degrees from the University of Glamorgan. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a member of the British Computing Society (BCS). Dr. Vlachidis's research focuses on interdisciplinary work at the intersection of Information Science, Humanities, and Computer Science. His primary interests include Information Extraction, Semantic Data Modeling, Metadata, Natural Language Processing, and Text Mining, with applications in cultural heritage, digital humanities, and social sciences. His work emphasizes data integration, FAIR data principles, and semantic interoperability for cultural heritage collections. His recent publications demonstrate expertise in cultural heritage data modeling, semantic technologies for historical collections, NLP applications, and inclusive AI education. His work with the Sloane Lab project has been particularly influential in advancing knowledge base development for historical catalogues and museum collections. Outstanding Paper award from the Emerald Literati Network Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) Member of the British Computing Society (BCS) Dr. Vlachidis supervises multiple doctoral students including Liu Lu (principal supervisor) and secondary supervises Binxia Xu, Charlotte Heng Men, and George Cooper. He has previously supervised to completion Helena Holis, Diego Ramírez Echavarría, and Olga Loboda. He serves as Departmental Tutor for pastoral care of students and chairs important committees including the Departmental Staff Student Consultative Committee. He leads significant research projects including the Sloane Lab (data unification, aggregation, and knowledge base development) and 'Text Analytics for inclusive AI education platforms' (promoting literacy development and writing skills). He also collaborates with the EU Horizon 2020 Ariadne Plus project on multilingual processing of archaeological literature.
