Senior Research Fellow
Senior Research Fellow
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.
Most conferences this year are being held virtually and the 2020 International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), the most prestigious international venue for research on the Semantic Web and Linked Data, is no different....Read more
The Open University (OU) has won the categories for Best use of data by a not-for-profit organisation and the Data for society in the DataIQ Awards 2020....Read more
KMi Research Fellow, Miriam Fernandez, received a Commendation from the STEM-Executive-Dean, Nick Braithwaite, at the STEM Faculty Assembly today....Read more
RET is a scheme at The Open University created to celebrate outstanding contributions to learning, teaching and the student experience in all types of roles across the University - both individual and team roles....Read more
EU H2020 project to develop advanced method for detecting and measuring violent radicalisation behaviour on social media. ...Read more
A Decarbonisation Platform for Citizen Empowerment and Translating Collective Awareness into Behavioural Change...Read more
Fernandez, M. and Bellogin, A (2020) Recommender Systems and Misinformation: The Problem or the Solution?, OHARS Workshop. 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, [Online]
Cantador, I, E., C and Fernandez, M. (2020) Exploiting Open Data to analyze discussion and controversy in online citizen participation, Exploiting Open Data to analyze discussion and controversy in online citizen participation, 57
Farrell, T., Araque, O., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2020) On the use of Jargon and Word Embeddings to Explore Subculture within the Reddit's Manosphere, 12th ACM Web Science Conference 2020, Southampton, UK
Khadka, A., Cantador, I and Fernandez, M. (2020) Exploiting Citation Knowledge in Personalised Recommendation of Recent Scientific Publications, LREC 2020, 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Marseille
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Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University
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