Leadership
Viviana Grieco, Ph.D. Professor of History and Latin American and Latinx Studies, University
of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC).
Praveen Rao, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Health Management &
Informatics/Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of
Missouri-Columbia (MU).
Research Assistants:
Ms. Nouf Alrasheed, full-time graduate research assistant in the School of Computer Science
and Engineering (UMKC).
Ms. Shraboni Sarker, full-time graduate research assistant in College of Engineering (MU).
Mr. Adam Cardenas Sisk, full-time graduate research assistant. Department of Spanish (UMKC).
Past Research Assistants:
Ms. Victoria Dominguez, undergraduate research assistant. Department of Spanish (UMKC).
Ms. Shivika Prasanna, full-time graduate research assistant in the College of Engineering
(MU).
Ms. Pooja Purushatma, graduate research assistant in the College of Engineering (MU).
Mr. Parshad Suthar, graduate research assistant in College of Engineering (MU).
Consultants:
Ms. Belén Callegarich, M.A. Director, Division of Written Documents, Archivo General de la
Nación Argentina.
David Freeman, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History (UMKC).
Mr. Ryan Rowland. Spanish Language Consultant.
Martin Wasserman, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History. Universidad de Buenos Aires,
Argentina and researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas,
Argentina (UBA – CONICET).
Skillset
Prof. Grieco is a native Spanish speaker who specializes in colonial Latin American history.
She has received extensive training in paleography and diplomatics in Argentina and in Spain
and, for the last two decades, has conducted research in Spanish and Spanish American
archives.
Prof. Rao is an expert in the areas of big data and knowledge management and machine
learning/deep learning. He brings forth the required technical expertise to develop new
techniques for knowledge graph construction and the software tool using open-source
technologies.
Dr. Freeman and Dr. Wasserman have extensively worked with the seventeenth century notary
records housed at the Archivo General de Nación in Argentina and contribute to this project
with their archival and paleographic expertise.
Ms. Belén Callegarich holds degrees in history and archival sciences. At the National
Archives, she is in charge of identifying, classifying, and describing documentation
produced during the colonial period. She brings to this project her understanding of the
processes involved in the production of colonial documents as well as her archival and
paleographic expertise.
Ms. Nouf Alrasheed is doctoral student in UMKC’s School of Computer Science and Engineering
and has the technical skills and programming knowledge to complete the tasks of this
project.
Ms. Shraboni Sarker and Ms. Shivika Prasanna are doctoral students in MU's Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and have the technical skills and programming
knowledge to complete the tasks of this project. Ms. Sarker brings to this project her
expertise in NLP (Natural Language Processing).
Ms. Victoria Dominguez, Mr. Adam Cardenas Sisk and Mr. Ryan Rowland are fluent in Spanish and
have been trained to read and label seventeenth century Spanish American scripts.
Ms. Pooja Purushatma and Mr. Parshad Suthar are master’s students in MU's Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and have the technical skills and programming
knowledge to complete the tasks of this project. They contribute with their expertise in
machine learning and knowledge graphs.
