About

Dr Leonardo Impett is a University Assistant Professor in Cambridge Digital Humanities and convenor of the MPhil in Digital Humanities. He was previously Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Durham University. Leonardo has a background in information engineering and machine learning, having worked or studied at the Cambridge Machine Learning Lab, the Cambridge Computer Lab’s Rainbow Group, and Microsoft Research Cairo. His PhD at EPFL, was on the use of computer vision for the “distant reading” of the history of art. Alongside his research in digital art history, he frequently works with machine learning in arts and culture, including for the Liverpool Biennial, the Royal Opera House, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Research

Leo’s research currently concerns:

• Computational and quantitative approaches to art and cultural history
• Critical computer vision
• Critical AI studies
• Historical/critical/cultural studies of training dataset and neural architectures
• AI in image generation
• Contemporary art
• Curation.