AI for Education

Born in Japan and raised across Latin America—spending time in Nicaragua, Ecuador, and primarily Brazil—Karen was shaped by a multilingual and multicultural environment. Her past academic interests focus on international student mobility, ethnicity, and race in education and international schools. Her recent interests revolve around investigating AI policies in higher education institutions across the U.S. and Brazil, examining how these policies reflect broader socio-political and geographical contexts.

Giordano is the head of the board at CESAR. He is a professor at Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), where he coordinates the research group MUSTIC, and the president of the CECM of the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC). He is an associate at CESAR, founder and member of the board of the Recife Agency for Innovation and Strategy (ARIES), and entrepreneur of five different digital startups.