Awarded SCAI Doctoral Contracts – Humanities & AI

Date

29 May 2026

As part of its call for interdisciplinary doctoral projects, SCAI funds PhD theses bridging artificial intelligence and the humanities and social sciences (HSS), co-supervised within the Sorbonne University Alliance.

Three projects were selected in the previous edition, showcasing the richness of cross-disciplinary research at the intersection of AI, musicology, archaeology and philosophy of science.

Max Ardito

"Tracing Scientific Genealogies in AI Music Research"

Supervisors: Fanny Gribenski — STMSPierre Saint-Germier — STMS

Quentin André

"Detection of Archaeological Sites in Mongolia through Deep Learning Applied to Aerial Imagery in an Open Science Perspective"

Supervisors: Dominique Bereziat — LIP6Joseph Wilczek — Centre André Chastel

Mira Geutzow

"The Epistemology of AI-Generated Images"

Supervisors: Anouk Barberousse — SNDBaptiste Caramiaux — ISIR

Congratulations to the three awardees and their supervisors. These projects embody SCAI's vision of bringing artificial intelligence into dialogue with the humanities to produce world-class interdisciplinary research.