Carlos is an Advisor at MIT DesignX, working on the design of public innovation hubs. He is also an Advisor at MIT Emerging Talent, where he builds partnerships within MIT to equip talented learners from migrant, refugee and displaced communities with computer science and life skills to become leading change agents in their communities. At MIT, Carlos co-founded and led the MIT GOV/LAB Governance Innovation Initiative as Associate Director of Innovation (2021-2024). There, he worked at the convergence of engineering design, technology, and political behavioral science to co-develop ethical, tech-enabled governance solutions with both governments and non-governmental partners. Carlos launched MIT’s Governance Innovation Research Fellowship where the institute paired students with cutting edge public sector innovation labs around the world to research tech and design challenges. He was the host of Power to the Who, MIT’s Governance, innovation and tech podcast.He's a Collaborator at MIT’s Civic Data Design Lab, where he supports research that is making data responsive to constituents’ needs.Previously, Carlos worked at MIT Solve, an initiative of the President of MIT to solve the world’s greatest challenges through technology. At Solve, Carlos engaged leading voices from academia, the private and public sectors, as well as nonprofit organizations to magnify the impact of social impact entrepreneurs. Prior to joining Solve, Carlos worked for the United Nations World Food Programme, redesigning humanitarian interventions through a data and community-first approach, in refugee camps, tribal areas, and other complex environments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. At his last post with WFP, he served as Asia Regional Resilience Officer, where his AI-powered humanitarian response prototype, ALIA, was a 2019 finalist at WFP’s Innovation Accelerator Google Launchpad and one of the first to experiment with Natural Language Processing in the humanitarian sector.Outside of academia, Carlos co-founded Republica do Sur, a south american arts collective that highlights literature and poetry through urban design objects grounded in civic activism aesthetics.