Ghazal Amirrashed, B.Sc.

Ghazal Amirrashed studied Computer Science at Bilkent University. Alongside her technical training, she pursued a broad interdisciplinary curriculum including art history, linguistics, archaeology, and visual arts.

During this time, her enduring interest in linguistics and arts led her to computational linguistics, where she applies methods like deep learning and natural language processing to literary and visual materials. Her interest revolves around grammar, particularly formal grammar, and its applications to both natural and programming languages, application of formal methods, such as Automata theory, in textual and visual analysis, and data visualization. 

She has a personal interest in how historical art, architecture, and music reflect lived experience. Some of the areas she finds especially meaningful include early music from the medieval to early Baroque periods, sacred medieval Armenian art, and Victorian mourning art. These interests are shaped by her background and personal encounters, and often inform the questions she brings to her work at the intersection of computer science and the humanities.

At the Digital Humanities Lab of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, she works on digital infrastructure and research projects that combine computational techniques with the study of historical texts, artworks, and cultural heritage collections. Her work focuses in particular on enhancing interoperability and data integration across the institute’s archival databases.