Daniel van Helden

Dr Daniël van Helden is Postdoctoral Research Associate on the AUTOMATA Project in the Department of Mathematics, King’s College London. Daan holds a PhD in Roman Archaeology from the University of Leicester. Though an archaeologist by training, he has always been maths-curious. On the AUTOMATA Project, he combines the two disciplines of archaeology and artificial intelligence. On the one hand he is developing AI tools to help automate recording and collating of the many different kinds of data from the diverse range of archaeological artefacts that the project deals with as well as for classifying those same artefacts. On the other, he provides domain-specific knowledge to interpret the results and finetune the process in archaeologically informed ways.