I’m a PhD student working with David Mimno and Matthew Wilkens at Cornell University in the Culture and Computation Lab. I'm also an AI Research Scientist at Epiq AI Labs. Here's my resume.

What do I do? I look for where humans and language models disagree on the world. My published research draws on narrative theory to show how LLMs (fail to) capture cultural concepts in areas like jurisprudence, journalism, and storytelling. This helps us improve them.

What else? I've consulted for news organizations like NYT and AP on language models. I've also presented at the Nieman Foundation, CS50 at Harvard, and the Computer History Museum.

Links? Bluesky / email / LinkedIn / Google Scholar

02/2026 "Too Long, Didn't Model" was accepted by SIGHUM 2026
01/2026 "NarraBench" was accepted by EACL 2026
10/2025 Organizing the next NLP4DH, co-located with ACL 2026
07/2025 Hired as an AI Research Scientist at Epiq AI Labs
07/2025 "The Zero Body Problem" was accepted by COLM 2025
05/2025 Began a summer internship at Epiq AI Labs
04/2025 Attended NAACL 2025 and presented "A City of Millions" at NLP4DH
04/2025 NSERC awarded me a 3-year scholarship to pursue extracting knowledge from neural networks
01/2025 Spoke on structuring data for the digital humanities at Concordia University

Papers

Too Long, Didn't Model: Decomposing LLM Long-Context Understanding With NovelsS Hamilton, RMM Hicke, M Wilkens, and D MimnoSIGHUM 2026
NarraBench: A Comprehensive Framework for Narrative BenchmarkingS Hamilton, M Wilkens, and A PiperEACL 2026
SHADES: Towards a Multilingual Assessment of Stereotypes in Large Language ModelsM Mitchell, G Attanasio, I Baldini, M Clinciu, J Clive, P Delobelle, M Dey, S Hamilton, et al.NAACL 2025
A City of Millions: Mapping Literary Social Networks At ScaleS Hamilton, RMM Hicke, D Mimno, and M WilkensNLP4DH 2025
The Zero Body Problem: Probing LLM Use of Sensory LanguageRMM Hicke, S Hamilton, and D MimnoCOLM 2025
Lost in Space: Finding the Right Tokens for Structured OutputS Hamilton and D MimnoarXiv 2025
Million Eyes on the "Robot Umps": The Case for Studying Sports in HRI Through BaseballW Kamino, AW Wen-Yi, D Agarwal, S Hamilton, EJ Kang, J Kim, et al.HRI 2025
Detecting Mode Collapse in Language Models via NarrationS HamiltonSCALE-LLM 2024
Blind Judgement: Agent-Based Supreme Court Modelling With GPTS HamiltonAAAI Workshop on Creative AI 2023
MultiHATHI: A Complete Collection of Multilingual Prose Fiction in the HathiTrust Digital LibraryS Hamilton and A PiperJournal of Open Humanities Data 2023
Mrs. Dalloway Said She Would Segment The Chapters HerselfP Sui, L Wang, S Hamilton, T Ries, K Wong, and S WongWNU 2023
Counterfactual Thinking: Social Simulation with Language Models for the Digital HumanitiesS HamiltonThesis, McGill University 2023
The COVID That Wasn't: Counterfactual Journalism Using GPTS Hamilton and A PiperSIGHUM 2022

Software

DocPlot. Private semantic search in the browser.
COVID-17. Showcases a counterfactual COVID narrative.
semantic-space. Generates thesauruses from latent space.
adsb-utils. Maps ADS-B packets with ncurses.
feature-space-explorer. Plots sentence embeddings in 3D.

Courses

Generative AI For Journalists. 350 students.
How to use ChatGPT and other generative AI tools in your newsrooms. 10k+ students and translated into Spanish & Portuguese.

Workshops

NLP4DH 2025. I served as session chair.
Workshop on AI & DH. Concordia University.
Run LLMs On Your Laptop. Media Party.
Workshop and Mixer on ChatGPT. Brown Institute for Media Innovation.