Luciano Frizzera
Senior Research Associate I
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolLuciano Frizzera is a senior research associate and digital humanities scholar with 13 years blending academic research, UX design, and full-stack web development to interrogate how AI and platforms shape subjectivity and social life. Currently a postdoctoral fellow (University of Waterloo) and longtime developer at the University of Guelph, he builds data collection scripts, interactive visualizations, semantic text editors and experimental interfaces that translate critical theory into usable tools. His work sits at the intersection of political economy, machine learning, and design—examining hyper-nudges and datafication while also shipping production-ready JavaScript applications. As an educator and collaborator across multiple universities and labs, he pairs rigorous humanities methodology with practical prototyping skills, a combination that surfaces both conceptual insight and tangible artifacts. An earlier career in graphic and communication design gives him uncommon fluency bridging visual language, pedagogy, and algorithmic critique.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.), Humanities Computing, Master of Arts (M.A.), Humanities Computing at University of AlbertaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Communication and Media Studies, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Communication and Media Studies at Concordia UniversityBachelor, Communication, Bachelor, Communication at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (42)
xml-editor10
xml10
storage8
git-lfs8
hacklang8
custom-events8
visitors7
text-encoding7
indexeddb7
wikidata6
database6
analytics-tracking6
offline-storage6
xml-validation6
islandora6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cwrc/wikidata-entity-lookup
Mar 2020 - Aug 2021
Find entities (people, places, organizations) in Wikidata.
Contributions:1 release, 57 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 4 months
organizationswikidata
cwrc/CWRC-GitWriter-Docker
Dec 2019 - Jul 2021
Docker Compose orgistrated CWRC-Writer with included GitHub connector, NERVE, and Validation service
Contributions:21 PRs, 60 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
cwrcvalidationconnectornervedocker
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