NICK
CHIMICLES

RESEARCHER & DEVELOPER

LLM SYSTEMS OVER ARCHIVES

WASHINGTON, DC

Classical painting

COMPUTATIONAL
HISTORY

I work at the intersection of history, computer science, and archival technology. I build LLM systems over large archives of historical and government documents — semantic search, knowledge graphs, and evaluation — and apply them to intelligence-analysis problems.

Currently: technical co-lead on MIDLLMAT, a project under IARPA's BENGAL program with Columbia's History Lab.

SELECTED WORK

HistoryLab AI

Conversational search over five million declassified U.S. government documents, built with Columbia's History Lab.

The Persistence of Precision

My senior thesis: a raid-by-raid reanalysis of U.S. strategic bombing in WWII's European theater, built from the original mission records.