Viviana Bastidas Melo

Dr Viviana Bastidas Melo is an Assistant Research Professor in Urban Systems and Infrastructure in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. She works on the interdisciplinary Digital Cities for Change (DC2) project at the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC). Her work focuses on the design and governance of digital solutions for public value, including data-driven and AI-based systems. She is currently investigating human-oriented approaches to AI-based systems to guide their responsible development and deployment. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Innovation Value Institute, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, where she also received a PhD in Computer Science (2021).