Hola👋

My name is Junior Francisco Garcia and I am a technology-agnostic software engineer and researcher. I aspire to always learn about the world around me and technology is just one lense through which I do so.

I am currently a Machine Learning Engineering Intern at Adobe in San Jose, California for Summer 2025, working on agentic AI on Adobe Experience Platform. Since 2021, I have been working full-time as a research assistant at the Human-Data Interaction Lab , where I worked on the following projects:

• Designing and implementing a novel collaborative search interface for group property bookings. ( ACM CSCW 2024).
• A game-theoretic simulation of content deployment between disinformers and mitigators in search engines and knowledge graph prediction models ( ACM CIKM 2024 Best Paper Award 🏆).
• A qualitative and speculative design analysis of the future of AI agents in assisting mediators in group decision-making (in submission).

I am also currently pursuing my graduate studies in Computer Science at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering in New York City 🇺🇸. In 2021, I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science and a minor in Interactive Media and Technology at New York University Abu Dhabi, for which I received a Golden Visa 🇦🇪 for outstanding academic achievement, which allows me to live and work in the UAE without a sponsor. I am originally from San Pedro Sula, Honduras 🇭🇳, a fact I repeatedly bring up in conversation.

In my free time, I enjoy practicing weight-lifting and long-distance running (I finished my first marathon in late 2022), traveling and exploring nature as much as possible (probably because of my training as a Honduran Eagle Scout ), watching football (I attended my first World Cup in Qatar 2022), and attempt not to loose to many games at chess.