Georgina Curto Rex is an Assistant Research Professor at the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society. Her research constitutes a bridge between human development and AI. She works on the design and implementation of AI socio-technical systems to increase human wellbeing and agency, such as poverty and inequality mitigation, social cohesion and inclusive growth, health and education equity, with special focus on the Global South. She is also interested in the ethics, democratization and participatory approaches in AI development. She conducts interdisciplinary research that contributes to the AI state of the art  in Natural Language Processing, Agent-Based Modeling and Machine Learning, with the ultimate goal to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

She received a PhD in Sustainability in the joint program by the Universities Ramon Llull, Deusto and Comillas, Spain. She was previously a post-doc at the Notre Dame – IBM Technology Ethics Lab.