Juanita (Juanis) Catalina Becerra Sandoval

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juanabecerra@g.harvard.edu

Research Interests: History of computing; history of technology; history of the body; history of the senses, science & technology studies.

Juanis is a Ph.D. candidate whose work examines histories of artificial intelligence, subjectivity, and the senses. Their dissertation project excavates the emergence of a voice biometrics industry in the mid-to-late 20th century, exploring the role of data, computers, and machine learning in legitimizing earlier conceptions of the voice and its relation to identity and interiority. Juanis holds a double B.S. in Physics and STS from MIT. They have held research positions in AI ethics at Columbia University and IBM Research.

Publications:

“‘Good Tech’ and Technologies of Elite Capture,” https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/44431 

Previous Degrees:

B.S., Physics; Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A.M., History of Science, Harvard University