A Senior AI Researcher and Team Lead at the United Nations University Institute in Macau.
Georgina Curto Rex is a Senior AI Researcher and Team Lead at the United Nations University Institute in Macau. Previously, she was an Assistant Research Professor at the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society and a Postdoc at the ND-IBM Technology Ethics Lab, University of Notre Dame. She has the honor of co-chairing the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Symposia in the Global South.
Focusing on issues of poverty mitigation, fairness, and inclusion, she works on the design of AI socio-technical systems that provide new insights to counteract inequality and advance interdisciplinary research towards the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Her research contributes to the state of the art in AI, specifically in Natural Language Processing, Agent-Based Modeling, Social Networks, and Machine Learning, with the ultimate goal of offering insights for innovative interventions to local and global challenges. Some of her research lines have been recognized with awards such as Best AI for Good Project at the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'22) and Outstanding Paper at the ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) within the 7th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms.
Georgina received her Ph.D. in the joint program offered by the universities Ramon Llull, Deusto, and Comillas Pontifical University (Cum Laude) for her dissertation on "Artificial Intelligence and Inclusion: an Analysis of Bias Against the Poor." During her doctoral studies, she was trained in the philosophy of economics, ethics, and human development, as well as in the state of the art in AI. She also holds a Master's Degree in Economics Research from Universitat Ramon Llull and an International Executive M.B.A. (with distinction and honors) from IE University Business School, where she was awarded for the Best Entrepreneurial Project.
Prior to her current academic positions, Georgina worked as an entrepreneurship consultant for the Barcelona City Council Local Development Agency and directed her own entrepreneurial project.