Games + Learning + AI

LUIS GAITAN

I design games, simulations, and AI tools for learning.

Research Associate and Teaching Fellow at Penn GSE, Teaching Fellow at Harvard, and AI-EdTech Consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank. Previously AI policy advisor to El Salvador’s Ministry of Education.

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2,600+

Educators trained in AI literacy

Countries worked in

$1.8M

Gates Foundation research grant

27+

Workshops at Harvard, MIT, and partner schools

What I do

Games & Simulations

Unity, Unreal, VR/AR, and mobile. Training simulations for ExxonMobil and the U.S. Department of Energy, and learning games such as an open-world math game set in 1976 Soweto.

AI in Education

AI characters in games, retrieval systems, and bias detection in language models. Tested in classrooms, including a randomized control trial.

Research & Policy

Ed.M. from Harvard. Published research on games and learning, AI policy advising for El Salvador’s Ministry of Education, and open data tools such as PISA Explorer.

Highlights

AI policy · El Salvador

AI literacy training for 2,257 educators in El Salvador

Two years advising El Salvador’s Ministry of Education. The work included more than 15 teacher learning communities run over WhatsApp for low-connectivity regions, and a published policy chapter.

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Gates Foundation

The Emancipation Game

An open-world game that teaches math through Black history with AI characters, studied in a randomized control trial in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. schools.

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