Human Flourishing in a Digital Age: Raul Castro Fernandez

Raul Castro Fernandez is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. In his research he builds systems for discovering, preparing, and processing data. The goal of his research is to understand and exploit the value of data. He often uses techniques from data management, statistics, and machine learning. His main effort these days is on building platforms to support markets of data. This is part of a larger research effort on understanding the Economics of Data. He is the faculty co-lead of the DSI’s Data Ecology Research Initiative and he is part of ChiData, the data systems research group at the University of Chicago.