Simone Calbi is a PhD Candidate at The New School for Social Research. Simone studies dialogue systems in human-computer interaction, focusing in particular on ways AI-assistive technology enables or inhibits trust and engagement.
Let’s be thought partners. I’m available for collaborations.
Simone is currently based in Brooklyn.
Buenos Aires was her home from 2009 - 2018.
Her background spans across disciplines including media and communications, literacy, psycholinguistics, and EdTech.
Simone strives to enable future uses of conversational agents as accessible and desirable interactive systems that add value to society in the domains of health, education, and support for asylum seekers.
After graduating with a degree in film, she lived in Sydney and Buenos Aires, driven by a passion for the Spanish language, Education, and Filmmaking.
The New School for Social Research
Simone has experience assistant teaching Applied Psychology and Design and The Fundamentals of the Psychology of Language. She’s the Cultural Psychology Lab manager at the New School for Social Research in New York, NY
IRC Zolberg Fellowship Awardee
As an Education Innovation and Scaling Fellow, Simone worked with the Airbel Impact Lab’s Education Global Research & Innovation Priority to strengthen the strategy to scale the Audio. Class System globally. The Audio Class System is an AI-powered chatbot and messaging solution to bring bite-sized educational content to support last mile learners in Colombia.
Strategic Education Research Partnership
Centering her drive to improve communication in the classroom to support literacy outcomes and enhance curriculum design, I became deeply concerned about the underlying intricacies involved in human-human interactions, inter-subjectivity and how language influences thought as well as the processes that go into language planning and dialogue systems.
