Ignacio Ojea Quintana
Ignacio Ojea Quintana
Alumni, now at Ludwig Maximilian University
Ignacio Ojea Quintana (PhD Columbia) is an Assistant Professor at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University. He was a Research Fellow in ANU Philosophy. His research interests are in social and formal epistemology. In particular, he uses formal tools to understand and tackle some of the impact that digital technologies have and will have in the way we organize knowledge in scientific and non-scientific communities. His dissertation focused on how to best represent the consensus and (network) dynamic of a social group given the attitude of its individuals, be them opinions or judgments of sympathy. He is currently investigating how reinforcement learning techniques used in recommender algorithms shape opinions and preferences, as well as their impact in social norms.