We are the public innovation lab of the School of Government
GobLab UAI is the public innovation lab of the School of Government of Adolfo Ibáñez University. It focuses on the use of data science to improve public policy and management. It seeks to contribute to the community through three main lines: research, education and applied projects.
Its mission is to improve people’s quality of life through the transformation of the public sector with innovation and data science.
Our team
María Paz Hermosilla is the founder and director of GobLab UAI, the innovation lab of the School of Government of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile. GobLab UAI focuses on the use of data science to improve public policy and management. She has a Master of Public Administration from New York University. She is the Academic director of a certificate program in Big Data and Public Policy and professor and researcher of Data Ethics. She was appointed by the Chilean Ministry of Science in the expert advisory committee to create the national strategy for Artificial Intelligence. María Paz is a member of the Advisory Committee for the Quality, Transparency and Impact of Public Spending, created by the Ministry of Finance. She is a consulting fellow for The Governance Lab at NYU. A former public servant, she led the redesign of citizen information services and open data efforts at the Ministry of Public Works.
Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Chicago and Master in Economics from the Catholic University of Chile. He has been a researcher in the area of urban economics at the Furman Center of NYU and a researcher at the Social Observatory of the Alberto Hurtado University (OSUAH). He is currently a Research Associate of COES. His research focuses on the application of data science tools to public problems, focusing on the areas of access to education in urban areas and the analysis of factors that affect traffic accidents.
Industrial Civil Engineer, University of Chile. Data Scientist GobLab UAI . Professor Master in Data Science, Universidad del Desarrollo. He was a project engineer at the Mathematical Modeling Center of Universidad de Chile, software engineer at Data61 and CSIRO in Australia and is co-founder of Chatbot Chile.
Current master student for the Education for diversity, inclusion and interculutral
PhD in Communication (2015) and Master in Public Administration (2010) from the University of Washington. Social and organizational psychologist at the University of Santiago de Chile.
Master in Law, University of California-Berkley. Degree in Legal and Social Sciences, Universidad Diego Portales.
Master of Arts in Economics, Brown University, United States,Bachelor of Economics, Torcuato di Tella University, Italy.
Architect, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.
Master in Psychotherapy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Master in Clinical Psychology, mention in Child and Juvenile Clinical Psychology, Universidad de Chile.
Bachelor of Philosophy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 1994.
His areas of expertise are political philosophy, moral philosophy, and ethics, with a special emphasis on egalitarian theories, multiculturalism, liberal theories, animal ethics, environmental ethics, and theories of international justice.
His areas of expertise are political philosophy, moral philosophy, and ethics, with a special emphasis on egalitarian theories, multiculturalism, liberal theories, animal ethics, environmental ethics, and theories of international justice.
Master in Economics and Public Policies UAI 2011, Commercial Engineer UAI 2011.
Currently a professor of Microeconomics II and Industrial Organization at the UAI for students of Commercial Engineering.
Previously, she served as coordinator of the Gender Parity Initiative in ComunidadMujer (2017-2018) and Analyst of profitability data of funds in Capital Advisors (2012-2016).
Currently a professor of Microeconomics II and Industrial Organization at the UAI for students of Commercial Engineering.
Previously, she served as coordinator of the Gender Parity Initiative in ComunidadMujer (2017-2018) and Analyst of profitability data of funds in Capital Advisors (2012-2016).
Master of Arts in Economics, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain,Degree in Economics, National University of Córdoba, Argentina.
Her area of specialization is Applied Microeconometrics to issues of Education Economics, Health Economics and Labor Economics. In her most recent works she has studied the impact of various public policies.
Her area of specialization is Applied Microeconometrics to issues of Education Economics, Health Economics and Labor Economics. In her most recent works she has studied the impact of various public policies.
Diploma in Computer Law. Certified in Leadership and Strategy in Cybersecurity by the Florida International University, United States. She has collaborated since 2008 in the Ibero-American Data Protection Network and is the founder of the NGO Datos Protegido. She is a specialist in personal data protection, has taught various courses and seminars in Chile and abroad and currently advises the public and private sector. In 2019, she was a finalist in the Leading Lawyers Ranking in the Data Protection category and an outstanding woman in Cybersecurity by the Chilean Cybersecurity Alliance.
Master in Psychology UAI, Master of Science in Data Science UAI
Research assistant and coordinator at the Centro de Neurociencia Social y Cognitiva UAI
Research assistant and coordinator at the Centro de Neurociencia Social y Cognitiva UAI
Student of the Master in Economics and Public Policy of the Adolfo Ibáñez University,
currently intern at GobLab UAI
currently intern at GobLab UAI
Bachelor of Economic Sciences and Master's Thesis of Economics from UAI