Research Projects
Here you can find the research projects I am currently working on and some ideas I intend to pursue.
A Paradoxical Approach to Building Policy Mixes for Emerging Technologies
This project analyzes the paradoxical nature of emerging technology policy and how policymakers develop policy mixes through paradoxical approaches. We draw our insights from interviewing 28 people in 22 countries from all continents.
- Thoughtful Adoption of NLP for Civic Participation — PACM HCI, 2025
- Addressing the Paradoxical Nature of Emerging Technologies in Transformative Policies — Atlanta Conference on SIP, 2025
- Transitioning between Gimmicky and Adaptive approaches to AI Policy — Atlanta Conference on SIP, 2023
AI to Support Policymaking
This project aims to understand how NLP tools can be used in participation processes incorporating the nuances of political processes in the public sector.
- Thoughtful Adoption of NLP for Civic Participation — PACM HCI, 2025
- Supporting Participation Processes Using NLP in Constrained Resources Settings — EGOV-CeDEM-ePart, 2024
- Using LLMs to Analyze Incident Reporting and Support Policymaking — Atlanta Conference on SIP, 2025
Thoughtfully Scaling Participation with AI
We are analyzing whether and how AI could scale participation in multiple dimensions: depth, length, diversity, and number of participants.
- From Fake Perfects to Conversational Imperfects — PACM HCI, 2025
- Image Generative AI to Design Public Spaces — Digital Government, 2025
Global AI?
This project's goal is to examine the narratives around Global AI from people involved in AI systems and policies.
- Participatory AI Governance: Lessons from Brazil and Chile — PAIRS, 2026 (forthcoming)
AI for Qualitative Research
I am studying the use of AI for qualitative research, exploring how AI tools can support qualitative coding and analysis workflows.