Javier Cha is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. Javier is a digital historian and medievalist who specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of East Asia.
He divides his research time between translations of essays written in classical Chinese into English, the application of graph database technology in historical scholarship, and experimental humanities projects that address the challenges posed by big data and artificial intelligence. He has been awarded grants and fellowships from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, the Academy of Korean Studies, the Korea Foundation, the Big Data Institute at Seoul National University, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong, he was a founding member of the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities and taught at the interdisciplinary College of Liberal Studies at Seoul National University.
