Senior Research Associate in Urban Systems and Infrastructure
Academic Division: Civil Engineering
Research group: Structures
Telephone: tba
Email: vab44@cam.ac.uk
Research interests
Viviana Bastidas Melo is a Senior Research Associate in urban systems and infrastructure working on the interdisciplinary Digital Cities for Change (DC2) project at the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC), Department of Engineering.
Her current research addresses the problems and challenges arising from designing and deploying digital innovations in cities. Particularly, her research follows a socio-technical approach focusing on governance, ethics, and responsible innovation to enable the deployment of digital solutions that create public value. Viviana's recent research involves her work as a co-applicant and co-investigator of the newly funded AI@Cam project.
Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Innovation Value Institute, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, where she also received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science (2021). Her research at Maynooth University focused on the strategic alignment between city services and information systems to achieve city goals and meet the needs of citizens.
Viviana's academic interests include:
- Socio-technical Design
- Responsible Digital Innovation
- Smart and Sustainable Cities
- Enterprise Architecture
- Information Systems
- Artificial Intelligence
Department role and responsibilities