KMi participated at the MK Innovates Festival for the STEM in Schools Day
KMi was represented by three activities at the “MK Innovates Festival for the STEM in Schools Day”....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.
KMi presence at SEMANTiCS 2023
Last week, the Semantic Web Community gathered once again for another yearly top-notch event: the 19th International Conference on Semantic Systems; commonly known as SEMANTiCS 2023....Read more
OU Analyse Team wins prestigious Education Dataset Prize
The OU Analyse team, which works to identify students at the university who may need extra support, has been awarded the prestigious Educational Dataset Prize by the Educational Data Mining Society for their remarkable work with the ‘OULAD’ dataset....Read more
Shifting Power: Launching our UKRI FLF Project on AI and Justice
KMi is happy to announce the official launch of “Shifting Power”, a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship-funded project investigating the impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Justice....Read more
Shifting Power
How can we create a more just society with AI?...Read more
OU Analyse
The OU Analyse project is piloting new machine learning based methods for early identification of students who are at risk of failing....Read more
DecarboNet
A Decarbonisation Platform for Citizen Empowerment and Translating Collective Awareness into Behavioural Change...Read more
Kwarteng, J., Farrell, T., Third, A. and Fernandez, M. (2023) Annotators' Perspectives: Exploring the Influence of Identity on Interpreting Misogynoir, ASONAM 2023: The 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, Kusadasi, Turkey
Reyero Lobo, P., Daga, E., Alani, H. and Fernandez, M. (2023) Knowledge-Grounded Target Group Language Recognition in Hate Speech, 19th International Conference on Semantic Systems, Leipzig, Germany
Bonnin, G., Bayer, V., Fernandez, M., Herodotou, C, Hlosta, M. and Mulholland, P. (2023) CERSEI: Cognitive Effort Based Recommender System for Enhancing Inclusiveness, 18th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2023, Aveiro, Portugal
Pavon Perez, A., Fernandez, M., Al-Madfai, H, Burel, G. and Alani, H. (2023) Tracking Machine Learning Bias Creep in Traditional and Online Lending Systems with Covariance Analysis, WebSci '23: 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023, Austin, TX, USA
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