Lenny Martinez

Lenny Martinez

Lenny Martinez

Hello! I’m a designer and PhD researcher at ISIR, Sorbonne Université. I research how generative AI systems are changing photographic practice, and how they affect our agency to visually represent who we are and what we have lived and experienced. My PhD is supervised by Baptiste Caramiaux and Sarah Fdili Alaoui, and is funded by PEPR eNSEMBLE.

I have a background in interaction design (MSc., TU Delft), photography & data visualization (MSc., Syracuse University) and mechanical engineering (BSc., MIT).

Previously, I taught data visualization and web development courses at the University of Miami. Before that, I’ve also been part of the teaching staff for MIT’s Product Engineering Process course, as well as a Carnegie-Knight News21 fellow investigating hate crimes in America.

In my free time, I boulder, go on long walks, and study new languages.

News (all news)

  1. UPCOMING Presenting my research at the Possible Entanglements Lab at the Polytechnic University of Turin.

  2. Presented my initial work on representational agency at the GenAI & Creative Practices conference at the University of Amsterdam.

  3. Presented my PhD work at the first annual GT Human-centered AI Day at Sorbonne Université.