Super UROP Spotlight: Sabrina Romero

Sabrina Romero, DH Lab Super UROP
Posted September 29, 2020

Super UROP Spotlight: Sabrina Romero

Please join us in welcoming Sabrina Romero, 2020-2021 Super UROP in DIgital Humanities!

Romero (MIT '21) is a Course 6 (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) major from the Miami, FL area with a love of photography and dance. When she first read about the opportunity to work with machine learning and computer vision on a dataset of historical photographs, she knew that she wanted to work with the lab to further her academic goals. Sabrina has signed on to work on Prof. Catherine Clark's "This was Paris in 1970" project from Fall 2020 through Spring 2021. She will begin by working alongside our UROPs and Fellows to learn the basics of teaching a computer to make complex inferences about an image's content and potential narratives, then will continue to work independently with her own dataset, supervised by former DH Director, Michael Cuthbert (Music and Theater Arts). By extending her research into the photographic history of her home country of Cuba, Romero hopes to reveal the country's interactions with a primarily capitalist world by studying its visual patterns.