Professor in Responsible Artificial Intelligence
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 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
Congratulations to three KMi's Doctoral Students who presented their research to the international community in Austin Texas last week....Read more
The Vice-Chancellor has issued a video message to Associate Lecturers via internal channels to explain the importance of using the Early Alert Indicators Dashboard (EAID)....Read more
KMi is delighted to announce that we have received an Athena Swan Silver Award following our recent submission to Advance HE....Read more
How can we create a more just society with AI?...Read more
EU H2020 project to develop advanced method for detecting and measuring violent radicalisation behaviour on social media. ...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
Kwarteng, J., Farrell, T., Third, A., Burel, G. and Fernandez, M. (2023) Understanding Misogynoir: A Study of Annotators' Perspectives, 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023 (WebSci ’23), Evanston, TX, USA
Reyero Lobo, P., Mensio, M., Pavon Perez, A., Bayer, V., Kwarteng, J., Fernandez, M., Daga, E. and Alani, H. (2022) Estimating Ground Truth in a Low-labelled Data Regime: A Study of Racism Detection in Spanish, Workshop on Novel Evaluation Approaches for Text Classification Systems on Social Media (NEATCLasS), Atlanta, Georgia
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
Reyero Lobo, P., Daga, E., Alani, H. and Fernandez, M. (2022) Semantic Web technologies and bias in artificial intelligence: A systematic literature review, Semantic Web, pp. (Early access), IOS Press
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The Open University
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