Giovanni DiRusso

Giovanni DiRusso is a 4th-year PhD student in the Committee on the Study of Religion. His research focuses on the intellectual history of Christianity and Islam in the medieval Middle East, and he is currently writing his dissertation on Christian Arabic apocalyptic literature. In addition to his primary research interests, Giovanni uses several machine-learning and computational tools in his study of Arabic and Islam, including OCR/HTR, text alignment, and natural-language processing. Among other tasks at PIL, Giovanni has tested and trained several machine-learning models for Arabic-language legal sources.