Bas Vercruysse has a MA in History (Ghent University, 2023) and is currently completing a postgraduate study on Applied Artificial Intelligence (Howest). He joined the GhentCDH team in 2023 as a student and started as a junior researcher in 2024. His current work revolves around implementing computational methods (computer vision, data sience) in existing research processes varying from handwritten text recognition to image extraction (for example detecting comics in 20th century interwar magazines).