News & Updates

2026

Mar 2026 As CCSS Data Science Fellow, offering 2 workshops titled "Discussion on the state of AI for qualitative research in 2026" as part of the QuIRI Methods Workshops, on March 9 and March 24. Registrations here.
Feb 2026 Preprint "Paradoxical Strategies for Emerging Technology Governance" posted on SSRN, with Julio Pertuze, Clara Caffrey, and Cristobal Cheyre. Under review.
Feb 2026 Abstract "Redesigning AI Regulatory Sandboxes for Generative AI: Beyond Traditional For-Profit Innovation" accepted at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference, with Bhargavi Ganesh and Thiago Moraes.
Feb 2026 Report "Context Matters: Localising UNESCO's Readiness Assessment Methodology" published by UNESCO, with Adya Danaditya, Shazade Jameson, and Cristina Martinez Pinto.
Feb 2026 Abstract "When Tools Don't Fit: Generative AI Adoption in Landscape Architecture" accepted for presentation at BIG.AI@MIT 2026 (April 2-3, Cambridge).
Jan 2026 Paper "Framing Responsible Design of AI for Mental Well-Being" accepted at CHI 2026, with Ned Cooper, Qian Yang, Angel Hwang, Beth Kolko, and Beth McGinty. Preprint available on arXiv.
Jan 2026 Presented at the PAIRS Preview event on participatory AI governance with Sacha Alanoca, previewing work for the AI Impact Summit in India (February 2026).

2025

Dec 2025 UNESCO AI literacy training for public servants in Bogota, Colombia.
Dec 2025 Paper on participatory AI governance accepted at the Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium (PAIRS), with Sacha Alanoca and Thay Graciano.
Nov 2025 Keynote on AI and civic participation at Pontificia Universidad Católica's Industrial & Systems Engineering Seminar.
Nov 2025 Keynote on AI's economic impact in Chile (Foresight/Google study) at ICARE.
Nov 2025 Talk on responsible AI fundamentals at AIEP alumni event.
Nov 2025 Workshop on AI adoption decisions for landscape architects in participatory processes, Los Angeles.
Nov 2025 Book chapter published: "Sandboxes regulatorios como herramientas de prototipado de politica publica" with Carla Illanes.
Nov 2025 Class on AI governance and risk management at PUC Law School.
Nov 2025 Workshop on AI and qualitative coding with MaxQDA for QuIRI at Cornell.
Nov 2025 Three classes on AI fundamentals (LLMs and prompt engineering) at PUC.
Nov 2025 Workshop on AI for qualitative research with the AI@Cornell Initiative.
Oct 2025 Invited discussant at Cornell's Landscape Future Seminar on AI in landscape architecture.
Oct 2025 Paper "Thoughtful Adoption of NLP for Civic Participation" presented at CSCW 2025 (Bergen), with Cristobal Cheyre and Qian Yang.
Oct 2025 Paper "From Fake Perfects to Conversational Imperfects" on image-generative AI for participatory design presented at CSCW 2025.
Oct 2025 Attended Positech Workshop: Design for Hope at CSCW 2025.
Oct 2025 Two classes on AI fundamentals for PUC's Master of Innovation program.
Sep 2025 Class on responsible AI in participatory processes for landscape architecture at Cornell.
Sep 2025 Report published: "Recomendaciones para la implementacion de sandboxes regulatorios de IA" with Pilar Trivelli for the IDB.
Sep 2025 Class on tech trends and data protection at PUC's Data Protection Diploma.
Sep 2025 Class on AI governance and Chile's AI Policy at PUC's AI and Law program.
Sep 2025 Class on AI fundamentals at UDD.
Aug 2025 Keynote on context-driven AI governance at the 5th Global Meeting on AI for Law Enforcement, Curitiba, Brazil.
Jun 2025 UNESCO Global Forum on the Ethics of AI in Bangkok, including train-the-trainers program on AI literacy.
May 2025 Passed candidacy exam — now a PhD Candidate!
May 2025 Cornell Thought Summit on LLMs and Society.
May 2025 Paper "Addressing the Paradoxical Nature of Emerging Technologies in Transformative Policies" presented at the 10th Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy, with Cristobal Cheyre and Julio Pertuze.
May 2025 Work on LLMs for incident reporting analysis presented at the 10th Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy, with Emily Eunji Kim.
Apr 2025 Panelist at VinFuture & UNESCO InnovaTalk webinar: "AI Without Borders: Ethics and Technology."
Mar 2025 AI Governance Panel at EmTech Caribbean 2025 (MIT Tech Review), Dominican Republic.
Feb 2025 Stakeholder workshop and preliminary results for Cambodia's AI readiness assessment (UNESCO RAM).

2024

Nov 2024 Poster on thoughtful adoption of NLP for civic participation at CSCW 2024 (Costa Rica).
Oct 2024 Dominican Republic AI readiness assessment report released (UNESCO).
Jul 2024 Paper on NLP for participation processes accepted at Academy of Management roundtable, with Julio Pertuze and Catalina Zamora.
May 2024 Talk on AI governance in Chile at National Legal Libraries gathering.
Apr 2024 Talk on AI in the public sector at GovTech seminar (Municipality of Providencia & Entel).
Apr 2024 Paper "Image Generative AI to Design Public Spaces" published in Digital Government: Research and Practice.
Mar 2024 UNESCO AI readiness assessment results presented in the Dominican Republic.
Jan 2024 Presentation at the XI Chilean STS Network Gathering.

2023

Oct 2023 Paper on anonymity in VR presented at CSCW 2023 (Minneapolis), with Yeonju Jang.