Karla Saldana Ochoa is a Tenured Track Assistant Professor in the School
of Architecture at the University of Florida and a faculty affiliate at
the AI2 Center, the Center of Latin American Studies, and FIBER. Karla
is the director of SHARE Lab, a research group focused on developing
projects that leverage the interaction between Artificial Intelligence
(AI) and human intelligence applied to boost creativity in architectural
design and create tools to analyze Big Data of Urban Phenomena. She
collaborates on international projects in Germany, Italy, Switzerland,
Mexico, and Ecuador. Karla is an Ecuadorian architect and coder with a
Master of Advanced Studies in Landscape Architecture and a Ph.D. in
Technology in Architecture from ETH Zurich. Her Ph.D. researched the
integration of Artificial and Human Intelligence for an accurate and
agile response to natural disasters, leveraging a multimodal fusion
approach for ML inference