Christian Nielsen Garcia

Information Scientist and PhD Student at UCLA.

Researching AI, swarm intelligence, collective intelligence, multi-agent systems, and decentralized governance.

Degrees

PhD Student in Information Studies, UCLA (Current)

MSc in Social Data Science, University of Copenhagen

BA in Performing and Media Arts, Cornell University

(Minors: Anthropology, Comparative Literature)

Funding

Mercatus Fellowship (George Mason University), UC Berkeley Center for Digital Assets (CDA) Research Award, Berkeley RDI AI & Decentralization Award, GSE Predoctoral Research Grant (SSRC / Mellon Mays).

Publications & Projects

Peer-Reviewed & Preprints

Benchmarking is Broken — Don't Let AI Be Its Own Judge

NeurIPS 2025

Position paper proposing a decentralized, community-governed evaluation framework (PeerBench) to address vulnerabilities in standard AI benchmarks.

Co-authors: Z. Cheng, S. Wohnig, R. Gupta, S. Alam, T. Abdullahi, J.A. Ribeiro, S. Mir, S. Li, J. Orender, C. Nielsen Garcia, S.A. Bahrainian, et al.

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The Geometry of Decision-Making in DAOs: An Information-Theoretic Mapping of Consensus and Disagreement in Decentralized Token Voting

SSRN Preprint (Under Review)

Proposes an information-theoretic framework using Rényi entropy to map voting dynamics across 277 decentralized autonomous organizations.

SSRN Preprint

Reports & Articles

On Computational Discourse Analysis for DAOs

Flipside Governance (2023)

Applied natural language processing across 59,000 DAO forum posts to analyze discussion topics surrounding scaling and governance delegation.

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Luxembourg AI Country Report

Center for AI and Digital Policy (AIDVI 2023)

Policy report analyzing national AI governance strategies, ethical standards, and digital policy regulations in Luxembourg.

Policy Report