Giulia Taurino
Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Experiential Artificial Intelligence
Research Interests
- Algorithms and Theory
- AI Ethics
- AI and the Arts
- Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval
Education
- PhD in Media Studies and Visual Arts, University of Montreal
- MA in Semiotics and Communication Theory, University of Bologna
- BS in Modern, Postcolonial, and Comparative Languages, Université de Haute-Alsace
Pronouns
She/Her/Hers
Biography
Giulia Taurino is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on content organization for digital platforms and archives, cultural implications of algorithmic technologies, and AI applications in the arts, heritage, and museums sectors.
Before joining the Institute in 2021, Taurino worked as either a research fellow or affiliate at Brown University’s Virtual Humanities Lab, MIT’s Open Documentary Lab, and Harvard University’s metaLAB. At Harvard, she contributes to the “Curatorial A(I)gents” project, which explores the intersection of AI and curation. She also served as Research and Innovation Director at AI Impact Alliance, where she wrote grants, designed projects, and implemented research for AI ethics and sustainable development goals.
Taurino has been affiliated with MIT’s Data + Feminism Lab and the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, where she works with David Smith. She has earned a litany of academic and professional grants and awards, with the MITACS Award, FIAT/IFTA Grant, S+T+Arts x Nesta Italia – City of the Future, and Unreal Engine x Zú Atrium among the most recent.