Gala聽Barrios
Graduate Research Assistant
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolGala Barrios is a transdisciplinary researcher and PhD candidate in Human-Centered Design at Virginia Tech with 15 years of experience bridging participatory design, critical disability studies, and innovation policy. She leads international, cross-sector collaborations that co-create assistive and health-related AI technologies with stakeholders to prioritize agency, dignity, and social justice over market-driven efficiency. Her work spans academia, public cultural institutions, and community-led initiatives鈥攄irecting Intercambios Transorg谩nicos in Argentina and advising large-scale science-and-technology exhibits for the Ministerio de Cultura. Gala combines speculative and participatory methods to interrogate institutional design practices and to craft inclusive innovation ecosystems that align with SDGs 3, 9, and 10. Trained in electronic arts and neurorehabilitation, she brings uncommon fluency in arts-based pedagogy and clinical perspectives to technology design. She is notable for translating lived experience into policy-relevant research that reshapes how health technologies are imagined, governed, and evaluated.
15 years of coding experience
Primer Escuela Argentina de ArteterapiaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Interdisciplinary studies: Human centered design, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Interdisciplinary studies: Human centered design at Virginia TechEscuela de M煤sica Juan Pedro EsnaolaDiplomatura en Neurorehabilitaci贸n Integral V.E.T.A.S. Transdisciplinaria (UMSA-AI), Neurorehabilitaci贸n, Declarada de inter茅s por la UNESCO, Diplomatura en Neurorehabilitaci贸n Integral V.E.T.A.S. Transdisciplinaria (UMSA-AI), Neurorehabilitaci贸n, Declarada de inter茅s por la UNESCO at Universidad del Museo Social ArgentinoLicenciada en Artes Electr贸nicas -, Arte ciencia y tecnolog铆a, Licenciada en Artes Electr贸nicas -, Arte ciencia y tecnolog铆a at Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero
Spanish, English
Github Skills (65)
accessories10
programming-language10
puredata10
dataflow10
synthesis10
digital-signal-processing10
real-time-data10
sound-synthesis10
devkitpro10
signal-processing10
visual10
computer-music10
frequency10
music10
dataflow-programming10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pd-l2ork/pd
Dec 2010 - Aug 2020
L2Ork version of Pure-Data real-time digital signal processing language developed and maintained at DISIS, Virginia Tech
Contributions:6 releases, 1272 commits, 5 PRs in 9 years 9 months
signalsound-synthesisdigital-signal-processingpure-datareal-time-data
pd-l2ork/pd-l2ork
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
This is pd-l2ork 2.x that integrates pd-l2ork 1.x and Purr-Data and continues to build on the pd-l2ork's focus on user-friendly interface and a robust set of dsp objects.
Contributions:809 commits, 40 PRs, 1079 pushes in 2 years 4 months
dataflowl2orklinux-laptop-orchestramusicprogramming-language
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