Yannick Rochat

Expertise Digital Humanities, graph theory, social network analysis, character networks, centrality, datavisualisation, social media studies, maritime networks, game studies. Current work I successfully defended a Ph.D. thesis called "Character networks and centrality" in September 2014. It was co-directed by Prof. Henri Volken (UNIL) and Prof. Frédéric Kaplan (EPFL) for a doctoral degree in Applied Mathematics to Humanities and Social Sciences. This research was focused on Les Confessions from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and I am pursuing it on a larger scale. Currently, I am principally working on the processing of newspaper archives with Giovanni Colavizza, Vincent Buntinx and Prof. Frédéric Kaplan in collaboration with Le Temps and the Swiss national library. More information Biography & Current Work List of Publications Personal Website Yannick Rochat owns a Master of Science degree in Mathematics from the école Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and a Ph.D. from Université de Lausanne (UNIL) in "Applied mathematics in humanities and social sciences" called "Character Networks and Centrality".On the web Personal Website Twitter Pegasus Data ProjectTalks Except were mentioned, all were peer-reviewed. 2015 Accepted abstract: Digital Humanities, Sydney (AUS) Renaissance Society of America, Berlin (D, second author) 2014 Digital Humanities, Lausanne (CH) TXDHC, Houston, Texas (US, best paper award) 2013 Humanités délivrées, Lausanne (CH, first author but not principal speaker) Digital Humanities, Lincoln, Nebraska (US) University of Luxembourg (LUX, invited speaker) University of Toulouse (F, invited speaker) 2012 JITSO, Lausanne (CH) 2010 ASNA, Zürich (CH) Sunbelt, Riva del Garda (IT, not principal speaker) UKSNA, Manchester (UK) 2009 ASNA, Zürich (CH)