KMi Elects Co-Chair ahead of EDI Board inauguration
Many congratulations to Charlotte Hamilton who has been elected Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Co-Chair for KMi....Read more
Miriam Fernandez
Professor in Responsible Artificial Intelligence
Miriam Fernandez
Professor in Responsible Artificial Intelligence
Dr Miriam Fernandez is a Senior Research Fellow at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), Open University, and a member of KMi's Social Data Science Group. Before joining KMi, she was research associate at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain and software engineer (internship) at Google Zurich, Switzerland. Her research is at the intersection of the Web Science (WS) and Semantic Web communities (SW), where she has contributed with more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in various leading conferences and journals. She has extensive expertise in leading EU and national projects. She frequently participates in organising committees and editorial boards of the top SW and WS conferences, recently being program co-chair of the International Semantic Web conference in 2017, and serving as editor for the Journal of Web Semantics. Dr. Fernandez is the Athena SWAN champion for KMi, leading key initiatives to increase equality diversity in higher education.
Best Paper Awarded to Joseph Kwarteng at ASONAM 2021
Congratulations to Joseph Kwarteng, our PhD Research Student who has won Best Paper at ASONAM, for his publication: "Misogynoir: Public Online Response Towards Self-Reported Misogynoir", alongside his co-authors Tracie Farrell, Miriam Fernandez and Serena Coppolino Perfumi....Read more
Congratulations to our new Professors!
We are delighted that our colleagues Anna De Liddo and Miriam Fernandez have been awarded their chairs....Read more
OUAnalyse among 4 Best Projects for using AI in Education by UNESCO
OUAnalyse, The Open University Predictive Learning Analytics system, was selected as a finalist and among the four best projects for the 2020 edition of the UNESCO Prize in education....Read more
TRIVALENT
EU H2020 project to develop advanced method for detecting and measuring violent radicalisation behaviour on social media. ...Read more
DecarboNet
A Decarbonisation Platform for Citizen Empowerment and Translating Collective Awareness into Behavioural Change...Read more
Zubiaga, A, Vidgen, B, Fernandez, M. and Sastry, N (2022) Editorial for Special Issue on Detecting, Understanding and Countering Online Harms, Online Social Networks and Media, 27
Kwarteng, J., Perfumi, S, Farrell, T. and Fernandez, M. (2021) Misogynoir: Public Online Response Towards Self-Reported Misogynoir, The 2021 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 21), Online
Bayer, V., Hlosta, M. and Fernandez, M. (2021) Learning Analytics and Fairness: Do Existing Algorithms Serve Everyone Equally?, AIED 2021; 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, ONLINE from Utrecht
Hlosta, M., Herodotou, C, Fernandez, M. and Bayer, V. (2021) Impact of Predictive Learning Analytics on Course Awarding Gap of Disadvantaged students in STEM, Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2021, Online / Utrecht, NL
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