I am a Senior AI Researcher and Team Lead at the United Nations University Institute in Macau. Previoulsy, I was an Assistant Research Professor at the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, University of Notre Dame , a visiting scholar at the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science and the Public, UC Berkeley, and a Postdoc at the ND-IBM Technology Ethics Lab, US.  I have the honor to Chair the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (JCAI) Symposia in the Global South and to be part of the publications organizing committee at the Deep Learning Indaba. 

I am the Principal Investigator of research projects where we advance AI research to inform policymaking on topics such as financial inclusion, homelessness alleviation or effectiveness of foreign investment, partnering with UN agencies, industry and member state governments. I build corridors between African, Chinese, European and American AI ecosystems through global research and capacity building projects. I am interested in working with investment initiatives to bridge the gap between science and pressing real-world challenges.

I contribute to the AI state of the art in Natural Language Processing, Multi-Agent Systems, Social Networks and Machine Learning and lead innovative interventions for sustainable development. Some of these lines of research have been awarded Best AI for Good Project at the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'22) and Outstanding Paper at the ACL (Association of Computational Linguistics) within the 7th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms. 

I received my Ph.D. in the joint program offered by the universities Ramon Llull, Deusto and Comillas Pontifical University (Cum Laude), during which I was trained into the philosophy of economics, ethics and human development as well on the state of the art on AI. I studied a Master's Degree in Economics Research from Universitat Ramon Llull and an International Executive M.B.A. (distinction with honors) from IE University Business School, where I was awarded for the Best Entrepreneurial Project. 

Previous to my current positions in academia, I worked as an entrepreneurship consultant for the Barcelona City Council Local Development Agency and I directed my own entrepreneurial project.