Felipe Vergara-Borge

Felipe Vergara-Borge is a software engineer and doctoral researcher at the University of Deusto (Spain), where he works as Research Assistant and Software Engineer on Horizon Europe projects. He is pursuing a PhD in Engineering for the Information Society (2023–2026), investigating equity-driven adaptive incentive models for spatial participation systems.

His work sits at the intersection of adaptive gamification, citizen science, and geospatial crowdsourcing. He designs deterministic, behavior-aware incentive systems where scoring semantics are explicit, strategies are pluggable, and outcomes remain reproducible under load, concurrency, and partial failure conditions.

Research areas

• Adaptive vs static gamification: studying how adaptive incentive mechanisms compare to static reward schemes under real participation variability.
• Incentive redistribution: mechanisms to reduce spatial participation inequality and support fairness in geospatial crowdsourcing.
• Reproducible scoring: deterministic and auditable evaluation of strategy-driven scoring models.
• Scalability: stress-testing and benchmarking of gamified citizen science platforms under high concurrent load.

Projects

• GAME (Goals And Motivation Engine): A programmable, API-first incentive engine designed for deterministic transactional semantics, pluggable strategy-based reward computation, and reproducible scoring. Used as the gamification backend for citizen science and participatory sensing platforms.
• GREENCROWD: An open-source, modular, gamified platform for geospatial citizen science campaigns. Integrates GAME for adaptive incentive allocation, supports privacy-by-design data collection, and provides a reproducible load-testing framework for scalability validation. Website: greencrowd.app
• GREENGAGE: Horizon Europe project on citizen engagement for carbon-neutral neighbourhoods. Contributes to the development of citizen observatories and digital platforms integrating environmental sensing, Copernicus data and participatory intelligence to support urban climate governance and decision-making. Website: CORDIS
• HARMONIE (Health Assessment Refinement for Mitigating Noise and AIR quality Effects): Horizon Europe project evaluating health effects of air and noise pollution in vulnerable populations through citizen-centric digital twin approaches. CORDIS

Links

• Official website: felipevergara.com
• ORCID: 0009-0009-3726-7706
• Google Scholar: scholar.google.com
• Scopus: Author profile
• GitHub: fvergaracl
• ResearchGate: Felipe-Vergara-Borge
• LinkedIn: fvergaracl