Orengo Romeu, Hector
Humanities
Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC)
Phone 977249133
Email horengo@icac.cat
Department GIAP
Address Pl Rovellat s/n
Keywords
Computational archaeology
remote sensing
machine learning
landscape archaeology
Old World civilisatoins
Short biography
Hèctor A. Orengo is an ICREA Research Professor at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, where he leads the Computational Humanities Section and directs the Computational Research in Archaeology Group (CoRArch). He obtained his PhD from the Rovira i Virgili University in 2010 and, since then, he has developed research at the GEOLAB (UMR 6042) in France, the Universities of Nottingham, Sheffield and Cambridge in the UK, and the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology in Spain. His research has focused on long-term human-environment interactions and the development of computational methods to address archaeological problems.