Rainier Mallol

Rainier Mallol
Minister of Housing, Habitat and Buildings of the Dominican Republic
Director of Digital Transformation [1]
Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Mipymes (MICM)
Director of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
Personal details
BornRainier Mallol Cotes
(1991-05-09) May 9, 1991
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
CitizenshipDominican Republic
Alma materHarvard University
Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra
Known for
Artificial Intelligence, digital public infrastructure, government modernization, The Operative Republic and disease prediction

Rainier Mallol (born May 9, 1991, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a Dominican entrepreneur and engineer best known for implementing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to disease outbreak prediction, digital government, and public-service modernization.

He founded AIME, cxgenies, and the Center for Public Intelligence (CPI). He has held technology leadership roles in Dominican government institutions, including the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development, the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Mipymes, and the Ministry of Housing, Habitat and Buildings.

Early life and education

Rainier Mallol was born in 1991 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.[2][3]

He earned a bachelor's degree in Telematics Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM).[4] In 2015, Mallol enrolled in Singularity University at NASA Ames Research Park, where he began developing his project to predict disease outbreaks using AI.[4][5]

Mallol pursued graduate studies at Harvard University, where he obtained a master's degree in international development.[3]

Career

AIME

In 2014, while a student at Singularity University, Mallol co-founded AIME, a company focused on predicting disease outbreaks using artificial intelligence.[3] He developed an AI platform capable of predicting outbreaks of diseases such as dengue fever, Zika, and chikungunya with up to 87% accuracy, three months in advance.[2][6]

AIME's platform analyzes various data variables, including weather patterns, population density, and infrastructure, to forecast potential outbreak zones.[4] The system has been piloted and implemented in countries like Malaysia, Brazil, and the Philippines.[7][5] During the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, AIME assisted in tracking and controlling the Zika virus.[6]

cxgenies

Mallol founded cxgenies, an AI-driven platform specializing in customer experience analysis.[8] The platform utilizes AI to analyze customer feedback across various interaction channels, including calls, emails, reviews, surveys, social media, and chats, design personalized action plans, and assess service operators' performance.[8]

The Operative Republic and the Center for Public Intelligence

In May 2026, Mallol published The Operative Republic, a vision paper on the modernization of government services. The paper focuses initially on construction permitting and proposes a digital operating system for public services, with shared components for identity, workflow management, rules, registries, payments, notifications, audit trails, and service orchestration. The paper frames the platform as aligned with digital public infrastructure and as a foundation for future AI-enabled service delivery.[9]

Coverage by Complete AI Training described the paper as an AI-readiness framework for government services, arguing that governments should address core infrastructure before layering AI tools onto existing bureaucratic processes.[9]

Mallol is also associated with the CPI, a nonprofit research organization focused on open digital public infrastructure and AI in government. The organization’s stated work concerns the use of public AI and digital infrastructure to support government service delivery. [9]

Public service

Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development

Mallol served as the Director of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) at the Dominican Republic's Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development (MEPyD). In this role, he helped improve government data systems and public services.[3][10]

Member of the Presidential Committee for COVID-19 Management

In 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Mallol was invited to join the Dominican Republic's Presidential Committee for COVID-19 management. He developed and led the creation of data systems to inform policies aimed at mitigating the economic impacts of the pandemic and improving crisis management.[11]

Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Mipymes

In 2023, Mallol joined the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Mipymes (MICM) as the Director of ICT. He has been involved in initiatives related to implementing systems with a nation-wide impact such as the Electronic System of Movable Security Interests, cybersecurity and digital infrastructure projects in the Dominican Republic.[11]

Ministry of Housing

In 2026, Mallol was listed as Director of Digital Transformation at the Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Housing, Habitat and Buildings. In that role, he became involved in the ministry’s permitting modernization agenda, focused on improving construction licensing processes. Dominican newspaper Diario Libre reported that the modernization plan was based on a diagnosis identifying weaknesses in processing times, interinstitutional coordination, operational capacity, traceability, and user experience.[1]

Awards and honors

References

  1. 1 2 "Ministro de Vivienda presenta avances de la nueva Ventanilla Única de Construcción". Diario Libre (in Spanish). 2026-04-30. Retrieved 2026-05-12.
  2. 1 2 "How AI could predict disease outbreaks". www.bbc.com. February 22, 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "RAINIER MALLOL".
  4. 1 2 3 https://www.pucmm.edu.do/noticias/Lists/EntradasDeBlog/Post.aspx?ID=459
  5. 1 2 "Proyectos de Rainier Mallol impactan más de 30 millones de personas". web.archive.org. June 19, 2020. Archived from the original on June 19, 2020. Retrieved January 27, 2025.
  6. 1 2 "Rainier Mallol (República Dominicana)". MIT Technology Review. October 5, 2017.
  7. ↑ "AI dengue prediction tool trialled in Asia, Latin America".
  8. 1 2 Adrians, Paola (May 13, 2024). "Revoluciona la calidad y experiencia del cliente con Inteligencia Artificial".
  9. 1 2 3 "Rainier Mallol publishes paper outlining AI readiness framework for government services". Complete AI Training. 2026-05-01. Retrieved 2026-05-12.
  10. 1 2 "17 UN SDG leaders attending 2017 Bogota Summit | One Young World". www.oneyoungworld.com.
  11. 1 2 Diario, Listin (December 9, 2019). "Dominicano en lista Forbes por aplicar inteligencia artificial en brotes de dengue". listindiario.com.
  12. ↑ https://www.technologyreview.es/listas/35-innovadores-con-menos-de-35/2017
  13. ↑ Fair, Vanity (October 3, 2019). "The Future Innovators Index 2019". Vanity Fair.
  14. ↑ "30 Under 30 2019". Forbes.
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