People

OxARCA — AI for Research, Collections and Archives. We work at the intersection of historical scholarship, archival practice and artificial intelligence. We explore the question of what an AI system has to do before a historian can responsibly rely on it.

• Sebastian Oliver Eck DPhil in Music, University of Oxford
• Ashley Duraiswamy DPhil in English Literature, University of Oxford
• Puyu Wang DPhil in Engineering Science, University of Oxford
• Yishun Lu Postdoctoral researcher in Engineering Science, University of Oxford

Project and Grants

• Interdisciplinary Uses of AI in the Humanities: Developing an Epistemically Grounded LLM-System for Archival Exploration. Funded by the CrossLinks Award 2026, St Cross College, University of Oxford.

• Transferable and Cost-Aware Source-Grounded AI for Archival Research Funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant, SRG26\262244. PIs: Davide de Roure, Yishun Liu.

Affiliation

University of Oxford, UK

Get in touch

We welcome enquiries from historians, archivists and digital humanists. Write to sebastian.eck@music.ox.ac.uk, or see get involved.