Established the UNESCO Chair in Open Technologies for OER and Open Education, and UNESCO Chair in Artificial Intelligence and is now managing the K4A Foundation.
Author of more than 70 reviewed research papers in the areas of Machine learning, algorithmics and formal language theory, and of a monograph, Grammatical Inference: Learning Automata and Grammars
Director of the Center for Data Science and Public Policy, Research Director at the Computation Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago