Founder & Executive Director, Institute of Knowledge, Research and Society
Historian | Specialist in Memory and Identity | AI–Humanities Integration Expert
Huseyin Oylupinar is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in identity, memory, and political culture in Eastern Europe, with a focus on Ukraine, Crimea, and the Black Sea region. He holds a PhD in History and Cultural Studies from the University of Alberta and is currently affiliated with the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES) at Uppsala University.
His current work explores the integration of AI tools into historical research, translation, and oral history processing. He is the founder of the Institute for Knowledge, Research, and Society, a Canadian NGO pioneering the use of artificial intelligence in the humanities and social sciences, and positioning itself as a flagbearer for innovative, interdisciplinary research models. One of the institute’s current initiatives focuses on developing AI-assisted translation workflows for Ukrainian oral histories, combining speech recognition, metadata extraction, and multilingual contextual analysis, aimed at improving access to under-documented testimonies and supporting deeper cross-cultural research.