Hi there! I’m Daniel, a PhD student in Information Science at Cornell University, lucky to be co-advised by Steven J. Jackson and Chris Csikszentmihalyi. My research broadly studies the design and governance of sociotechnical AI systems, as well as the benefits and costs these systems produce. Using lenses from social informatics, machine learning, and anthropology, my PhD dissertation work examines the making of financial infrastructures in the global majority world and their policy implications on social and economic life. My research also centers moral values and their role in structuring expert and ordinary practice in different spheres of life. I’ve has previously worked as a technology researcher and policy analyst, and am a research affiliate of CIPESA, a leading technology policy think tank in Africa. I was previously an affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard from 2020 to 2024.