SELECTED HONORS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS
2023 - 2024 Chair of the AI for Good Symposia in the Global South, IJCAI (International
Joint Congress of AI). Symposium in 2023 in Johannesburg, in collaboration with
SACAIR (South African Conference on AI Research).
2023 - 2024 Co-Chair of the AI and Social Good Special Track, IJCAI (International Joint
Conference on AI).
2024 Co-Chair of the AI for Public Policy-Making Innovation workshop at the ITU
UN AI for Good Global Summit 2024.
2024 Co-Chair of the AI for Public Good Leadership Summit,
in collaboration with YPO and AI Commons.
2023 - 2024 Fellow of the Economically Sustainable AI for Good Project
(ND – IBM Technology Ethics Lab).
2003 Associate Scientist. Ellis Alicante Foundation.
European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems
2023 Outstanding Paper Award
Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL)
7th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms.
Paper “Aporophobia: An Overlooked Type of Toxic Language Targeting
the Poor”, with Kiritchenko, S., Nejadgholi, I. and Fraser, K.C.
2022 Best AI for Good Project Award
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’2022)
for “A Norm Optimization Approach to SDGs:
Tackling Poverty by Acting on Discrimination”
with Montes, N., Comim, F., N., Osman & Sierra, C.
2022 Cum Laude for the Ph.D. dissertation “Artificial Intelligence and
inclusion: an analysis of bias against the poor”.
2005 Best MBA Entrepreneurship Project Award. Instituto de Empresa (IE).
2005 Distinction with Honors. International Executive MBA.
Instituto de Empresa (IE).