UW Professor Paul Atkins Receives HAVI Funding to Advance AI Research on Classical Japanese Manuscripts
November 12, 2026
University of Washington Professor Paul Atkins has received funding through the Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) to advance research using artificial intelligence to analyze classical Japanese manuscripts. The project aims to make historical texts more accessible while providing scholars with new tools to study Japan’s literary and cultural history. The project, Deep Learning for