Systems people actually use
A decade building participation platforms, national data observatories and applied AI — from the Chilean social outbreak to the French presidential election. Papers matter less here than products that work at population scale.
Applied Generative AI
Designs and teaches the Generative AI course and leads applied LLM systems with industry and public-sector partners through the CDIA board.
Teaching ↗DataChile
Core contributor to Chile's flagship open-data observatory — economic complexity profiles for every commune, explored by millions.
datachile.io ↗Data La Tercera
Data journalism infrastructure with one of Chile's largest newspapers — complex datasets made legible for a mass audience.
data.latercera.com ↗MonProgramme 2022
Digital participation platform for the French presidential election: citizens build their own government program from 100+ candidate proposals.
monprogramme2022.org ↗Chilecracia
Pairwise-comparison platform measuring citizen priorities during the Chilean social outbreak — disagreement, quantified.
chilecracia.org ↗Asuprioriza
With ARCA Latam, ABC Digital and the Center for Collective Learning — measuring agreements among Asunción residents.
asuprioriza.org ↗Constitutín
Playful digital tool teaching 20+ constitutional topics during Chile's constitutional process.
constitutin.cl ↗AI World
Mapping global AI capabilities — who can build what, where.
aiworld.eu ↗Writing in El Mostrador
15+ opinion columns on AI, employment, democracy and education — the research, translated for public debate. Organized by the questions readers ask most.
A decade from data to AI
B.Sc. in Engineering, UdeC
Engineering foundations in Concepción.
Industrial Engineering, UdeC
Operations, economics and systems thinking.
DataChile · Chilecracia
National-scale data products. Chilecracia measures citizen priorities during the social outbreak; DataChile becomes the country's open-data observatory.
Constitutín · Asuprioriza
Civic tech across two countries: constitutional education in Chile, citizen agreements in Asunción, Paraguay.
MonProgramme · Research Policy
Participation platform for the French presidential election; cross-space study of science and technology published in Research Policy.
Ph.D. Toulouse · Nature Human Behaviour
Doctorate in Computer Science (Université de Toulouse). Population-scale study of divisiveness in France and Brazil in Nature Human Behaviour.
Professor, UdeC
Joins the Faculty of Engineering. Teaches Data Visualization, Multivariate Statistics and the new Generative AI course.
Board, CDIA · Public voice
Board of the Center for Data and AI. 15+ columns in El Mostrador on AI, work and democracy.
Photographic archive in progress — portrait above, historical images to follow. If you have photos from any of these projects, they are welcome here.
Selected studies
The full publication list lives on the research page and Google Scholar. A short selection, for reference: