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KMi’s excellence in research and innovation would not be possible without the extraordinary women working and studying here....Read more
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’s excellence in research and innovation would not be possible without the extraordinary women working and studying here....Read more
During a sequence of events from March 4th to March 29th, 2024, AI UK Fringe assembles influential figures from academia within the UK's AI landscape to showcase, present, and share advancements in their pioneering endeavors....Read more
The AI UK 2024 Fringe event aims to explore the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence in education (AIEd), drawing inspiration from Bloom's 1984 paper on personalized teaching....Read more
The OU has been highly commended at the Higher Education Strategic Planners Association (HESPA) Awards for its innovative use of data to enhance student success....Read more
How can we create a more just society with AI?...Read more
The OU Analyse project is piloting new machine learning based methods for early identification of students who are at risk of failing....Read more
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., Kwarteng, J., Russo, M, Fahimi, M, Scott, K, Ferrara, A, Sen, I and Fernandez, M. (2023) A Multidisciplinary Lens of Bias in Hate Speech, The 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 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
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Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University
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