Mark Humphries is a Professor of History and the former Dunkley Chair in War and the Canadian Experience at Wilfrid Laurier University. He has published six books and more than two dozen articles on digital history, Canadian history, the history of public health, and military history. Mark has been programming since he was a kid and has been using machine learning and digital methods for nearly two decades.

Prof. Humphries is deeply interested in applying Large Language Models to qualitative research, using historical topics to explore their strengths and limitations. He has fine-tuned models for retrieval augmented generation pipelines, built tools to automate large portions of the research stack, and developed unique validation and accuracy benchmarks for frontier models. He has released several open-source software tools to explore how historians and other researchers can use artificial intelligence in their work, some of which are already in use at major archives.

Mark is especially interested in exploring how AI will reshape scholarly research, higher education, and work. He writes about these issues in peer-reviewed articles and on his popular Substack Generative History. His work has appeared in or been profiled by major international media including the New York Times, Washington Post, The Economist, National Geographic, BBC, the Verge, CBC, Macleans, and the Globe and Mail.