Meet Emily

Emily Genatowski is a PhD Candidate in Digital Humanities at The University of Vienna, holding degrees from both Harvard University and Columbia University. With a robust background in AI and digital culture, Emily is a former Googler who coordinated the North American Sector of Google Arts & Culture where she worked on several AI driven projects with institutional partners including The Smithsonian, NASA and The US National Archives. Once based in Austria, throughout the 2023 ExploreSalon, Emily led an Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities experimental project team in creating the Schnitzler Bot, an AI trained on the life and works of Arthur Schnitzler. She pioneered a first of its kind academic master’s course on Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models in Humanities Research at the University of Vienna and arranged AI focused guest lectures for masters students from Interpol, The United Nations, Bank of America and beyond. Emily’s original AI course was later adapted and published on DARIAH Campus, a pan- European infrastructure for arts and humanities scholars. Emily acts as host of the University of Vienna Doctoral School Podcast where she often discusses AI and technology. Emily recently delivered the Keynote speech for Advanced Studies in Heritage Education at the University of Roma Tor Vergata and Roma Tre University titled Digitizing Cultural Heritage Archives in the Age of AI and she presented at the Eden Conference on The Future of AI in Formal and Informal Education Contexts: Inclusion, Ethics and New Perspectives. Emily is now operating a CLARIAH.AT funded project which determines citation conventions for new digital sources in academic works throughout Austria including conventions for citations of works supported by generative AI. Emily was recently selected to participate in the digital innovation lab assessment for her submission regarding an AI enabled methodology for the promotion of research done by faculty and students at the University of Vienna. In addition to her Doctoral work with the Digital Humanities department on Open Source Intelligence and Data Analysis in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Emily is currently in development with a number of additional AI projects which will be announced shortly!

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