Since joining the institute in 2017, Calvin has been central to the technical development of interdisciplinary research tools that support historians of science. He has played a leading role in projects such as LoGaRT, Books in China, CHMap, and Music in Tombs, contributing both as a software architect and a scholar deeply engaged in digital methodologies.
Bridging humanistic inquiry with robust software design, Calvin specializes in building user-centered research platforms that integrate textual, visual, and geospatial data. His work includes the development of powerful full-text search systems, image and text annotation tools, and interactive data visualizations. He advocates for iterative development driven by researcher feedback, ensuring the digital tools serve scholarly needs.
With a strong background in both academic and industry settings—including leadership roles in software development—Calvin brings a practical, agile, and innovative mindset to collaborative research. In his current role, he also explores the implications of AI and large language models for humanities research and regularly shares his insights through talks and hands-on workshops in international academic settings.
Current Projects
Completed Projects
Selected Publications
Che, Qun, Shih-Pei Chen, Nung-yao Lin, and Calvin Yeh (2026). “Link Visions Together: Visualizing Geographies of Late Qing and Republican China.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, March 27, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqag015.
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Che, Qun, Nungyao Lin, Shih-Pei Chen, and Calvin Yeh (2023). “Link Visions Together: Visualizing Geographies of Late Qing and Republican China.”. In Digital Humanities 2023: Book of Abstracts. Collaboration as Opportunity (DH2023), Graz, Austria, ed…
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Chen, Shih-Pei, Calvin Yeh, Sean Wang, and Qun Che (2023). “Treating a Genre as a Database: A Digital Research Methodology for Studying Chinese Local Gazetteers.” International Journal of Digital Humanities 4 (1–3): 171–193. https://doi.org/10.1007…
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Lin, Nung-yao, Shih-Pei Chen, Sean Wang, and Calvin Yeh (2020). “Displaying Spatial Epistemologies on Web GIS: Using Visual Materials from the Chinese Local Gazetteers as an Example.” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 14 (1–2):…
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Past Events
Digital Humanities Workshop
From Local Gazetteers Project to Asia Network: Working with Licensed Materials in Digital Humanities
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