Fernando Delgado, PhD is an expert in legal AI with 20 years of experience in the legal technology sector. Fernando is the Senior Director of the AI & Analytics group at Lighthouse, responsible for the design and implementation of Lighthouse proprietary solutions across the areas of structured analytics, predictive AI and generative AI. A veteran ediscovery technologist, Fernando has pioneered multiple solutions including Lighthouse’s Key Documentation Identification (KDI) for targeted fact-finding, Cross-Matter Analysis for strategic work-product re-use, and GenAI Subject Matter Descriptions for privilege logs.

Fernando holds a PhD in information science from Cornell University. His academic work on AI and legal technology has been published in leading Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) journals. This scholar-practitioner oriented work was supported by the National Science Foundation (Law & Science Directorate), MacArthur Foundation (Technology in the Public Interest), and the Russell Sage Foundation (Initiative on Computational Social Science).