Curriculum Vitae
Education
2022 –
Ph.D. in Information Science
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Committee: Cristobal Cheyre (Chair), Qian Yang, Malte Ziewitz
2022 – 2025
M.Sc. in Information Science
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
2016 – 2018
M.Sc. in Industrial and Systems Engineering
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
2011 – 2018
B.S. in Industrial Engineering
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Minors in Innovation, Public Policy, and Communications
Professional Experience
2022 –
Graduate Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant
Cornell University, U.S.
2022 –
Co-founder
Foresight Consulting, Chile
2021 – 2022
Head of the Future and Social Adoption of Technology Unit
Ministry of Economy, Development, and Tourism, Chile
2019 – 2020
Advisor at the Future Team
Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge, and Innovation, Chile
2018 – 2019
Advisor at the Economy of the Future Unit
Ministry of Economy, Development, and Tourism, Chile
Publications
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
Under Review
Paradoxical Strategies for Emerging Technology Governance
Jose A. Guridi, Julio Pertuze, Clara Caffrey, Cristobal Cheyre.
2026
A Park for All: Layering Transgenerational, Translocal, and Parochial Experiences of Immigrant Communities in Los Angeles
Rosie Nguyen, Lee Humphreys, Maria Goula, Cristobal Cheyre, Duarte Santo, Jose A. Guridi, Marco Rangel
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
2026
Friction as Method: A Latin American Reading of Digital Culture Shock
Jose A. Guridi
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
2025
Image Generative AI to Design Public Spaces: a Reflection of how AI Could Improve Co-Design of Public Parks
Jose A. Guridi, Cristobal Cheyre, Maria Goula, Duarte Santo, Lee Humphreys, Achilleas Souras, Aishwarya Shankar
Digital Government: Research and Practice
2020
Natural laboratories as policy instruments for technological learning and institutional capacity building: The case of Chile’s astronomy cluster
Jose A. Guridi, Julio A. Pertuze, Sebastian Pfotenhauer.
Research Policy
Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings
2026
Framing Responsible Design of AI Mental Well-Being Support: AI as Primary Care, Nutritional Supplement, or Yoga Instructor?
Ned Cooper, Jose A. Guridi, Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Beth Kolko, Beth McGinty, Qian Yang
2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2025
From Fake Perfects to Conversational Imperfects: Exploring Image-Generative AI as a Boundary Object for Participatory Design of Public Spaces
Jose A. Guridi, Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Duarte Santo, Maria Goula, Cristobal Cheyre, Lee Humphreys, Marco Rangel
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2025)
2025
Thoughtful Adoption of NLP for Civic Participation: Understanding Differences Among Policymakers
Jose A. Guridi, Cristobal Cheyre, Qian Yang
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2025)
2025
Translocal Imaginaries and Sense of Belonging: Narratives and Mythologies in the Design of the Migrant Urban Commons
Duarte Santo, Maria Goula, Lee Humphreys, Cristobal Cheyre, Jose A. Guridi, Marco Rangel
AMPS Proceedings
2024
Supporting Participation Processes Using NLP in Constrained Resources Settings
Jose A. Guridi, Julio A. Pertuze, Catalina Zamora
Proceedings of the Ongoing Research, Practitioners, Posters, Workshops, and Projects of the International Conference EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2024
Peer-reviewed Workshops and Posters
2025
Exploring AI Technology and Policy Co-Development: Insights from Seventeen AI Regulatory Sandboxes
Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Jose A. Guridi, Hauke Sandhaus, Qian Yang
Design for Hope: Cultivating Deliberate Hope in the Face of Complex Societal Challenges Workshop (CSCW 2025)
2023
Are You Anonymous? Inferring Personal Information from Nonverbal Behavior Data Tracked in Immersive Virtual Reality
Yeonju Jang, Jose A. Guridi, Daniel Molitor, Rachel Kwon, Sneha Nagarajan
Companion of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2023)
Book Chapters
Forthcoming
Natural Laboratories
Julio Pertuze & Jose A. Guridi
Handbook on Living Labs and Real-World Experiments
Forthcoming
Crises, deliberation, and STI policy in Chile: Can political unrest institutionalise participation?
Iñaki Goñi & Jose A. Guridi
Participatory and Deliberative practices in Techno-scientific Innovation for a better relationship between Science and Society (Vernon Press)
2025
Piloteando la futura Ley de Protección de Datos en Chile: sandboxes regulatorios como herramientas de prototipado de política pública
Jose A. Guridi & Carla Illanes
Actas de las Primeras Jornadas Latinoamericanas de Derecho y Tecnología (Tirant lo Blanch)
Peer-reviewed Extended Abstracts
2026
When tools don’t fit: Generative AI adoption in landscape architecture
Jose A. Guridi & Cristobal Cheyre
2026 The Business Implications of Generative AI @ MIT, Cambridge, MA, U.S.
2025
Using LLMs to Analyze Incident Reporting and Support Policymaking: Opportunities and Challenges
Jose A. Guridi & Eunji Emily Kim
Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, U.S.
2025
Addressing the Paradoxical Nature of Emerging Technologies in Transformative Policies
Jose A. Guridi, Julio A. Pertuze, Cristobal Cheyre
Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, U.S.
2024
Piloteando la futura Ley de Protección de Datos en Chile: sandboxes regulatorios como herramientas de prototipado de política pública
Jose A. Guridi & Carla Illanes
Jornadas Latinoamericanas de Derecho y Tecnología, Chile
2024
This is not AI
Jose A. Guridi
XI Encuentro CTS — Oscilaciones, La Serena, Chile
2024
Matters of Representation: Deciphering participatory design thinking patterns with immigrants exploring AI as a tool for co-design practices
Duarte Santo, Maria Goula, Aishwarya Shankar, Lee Humphreys, Cristobal Cheyre, Achilleas Souras, Jichu Zhang, Jose A. Guridi, Xiaochang Qiu, Chen Chen
Council of Educations in Landscape Architecture (CELA), St. Louis, U.S.
2023
Building resilient technology policy through public participation: The case of the Chilean National AI Strategy
Jose A. Guridi, Julio A. Pertuze, Cristobal Cheyre
Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, U.S.
2022
Re-centering the social in AI policy through open participation processes. The case of the Chilean National AI Policy
Jose A. Guridi, Julio A. Pertuze, Cristobal Cheyre
Graduate Research in STS, Harvard University, Cambridge, U.S.
2017
A framework for innovation, institutional, and cultural spillovers from Big Science Centers: the case of the Chilean astronomy cluster
Jose A. Guridi, Julio A. Pertuze
Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, U.S.
Policy and Consulting Reports
In Progress
Panama: artificial intelligence readiness assessment report
UNESCO
In Progress
El Salvador: artificial intelligence readiness assessment report
UNESCO
In Progress
Honduras: artificial intelligence readiness assessment report
UNESCO
In Progress
Guatemala: artificial intelligence readiness assessment report
UNESCO
2025
Recomendaciones para la Implementación de Sandboxes Regulatorios de IA
Inter-American Development Bank
Selected Talks
08/2025
Context driven AI Governance — Tailoring AI Governance Beyond One-Size-Fits-All
Global Meeting on AI for Law Enforcement, Curitiba, Brazil
03/2025
AI in and from Latin America: Where we are and Where do we go?
MIT Technology Review: EmTech Caribbean, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
11/2024
Paradojas en el Desarrollo de Políticas Tecnológicas y de Transformación Digital
XII Congreso Científico Internacional TUS-2024, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
03/2020
UNICEF Workshop on AI and Children in Latin America and the Caribbean
São Paulo, Brazil
01/2020
National AI Strategies in Latin America
AI Latin American SumMIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, U.S.
11/2019
The case of the Data Observatory in Earth-Space convergence
Network for Earth-space Research Education and Innovation with Data (NEREID), Green Bank Observatory, West Virginia, U.S.
Groups and Affiliations
Cornell University
Present
Research in Economic and Social Effects of Technology (RESET) Lab
2023 – 2024
Laidlaw Scholars Graduate Mentor
2022 – 2024
Fidelity, Authenticity, and Knowability in Electronic media (FAKE) Lab
OECD
2022
Delegate at the Working Party on AI Governance (WPAIGO)
2021 – 2022
Delegate at the Committee on Digital Economy Policy (CDEP)
2020 – 2021
Member of the Working Group on National AI Policies
Chilean Production Development Corporation (CORFO)
2021 – 2022
Directive Councilor at the Innova Chile Council
Grants, Awards, and Fellowships
2025 – 2026
[Fellowship] Data Science Fellowship
CCSS Qualitative and Interpretive Research Institute, Cornell University
2025
[Grant] Examining rationales for exploring and selecting AI-powered tools to scale participatory design of urban spaces
CCSS Qualitative and Interpretive Research Institute, Cornell University
2023
[Award] Outstanding Service Award
Information Science, Cornell University
2022
[Award] Best part-time instructor
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
2018
[Award] Best Teaching Assistant
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Service
2023 – 2024
CSCW 2024 Web Co-Chair
2022 – 2024
Cornell Information Science Hiring Committee
Peer Review
2025
Transactions on Social Computing
2024, 2025
CSCW
2024, 2025, 2026
FAccT
2024
Journal of Infrastructure, Policy, and Development
2024, 2026
CHI
2020
Research Policy
Teaching and Mentoring
Cornell University — College of Computing and Information Science
Present (TA)
Networks II: Market Design
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile — School of Law
Present
Privacy Diplomat (Instructor)
Present
Artificial Intelligence and Law Diplomat (Instructor)
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile — School of Engineering
2020 – 2021
Management and Behavior in Firms (Instructor)
2017
Corporate Governments (TA)
2015 – 2017
Management and Behavior in Firms (TA)
Mentored Students
2024 – 2025
Miguel Mondaca
M.Sc. in Industrial and Systems Engineering — Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
2022 – 2023
Catalina Zamora
M.Sc. in Industrial and Systems Engineering — Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Graduated Dec 2023)
Thesis: Managing stakeholder deliberation using NLP in policymaking