Aaron Schein

Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science at the University of Chicago, who received a 2026 HAVI (Humanities and AI Virtual Institute, a Schmidt Sciences program) grant with PhD student Chris Wolfram to develop a method — LLM extraction verified against a Bayesian model of lunar/planetary/stellar positions — for extracting and verifying astronomical observations from the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries, working with Brown University's John Steele.

Entered the vault as the lead of the one candidate "independent" project the Pinheiro/Ting Babylonian-dating preprint's own footnote points to — a project that predates that preprint and has not yet engaged with its findings. status: watching rather than hub: the project is early (results reported only as "promising"), unpublished, and this is the vault's first encounter with Schein — a stub stamps the first-seen date rather than overclaiming standing on one institutional announcement. Promote to hub if the project publishes, or if a second independently-read piece of Schein's work enters the vault.

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