Member
Miriam Fernandez 
Senior Research Fellow
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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.
Keys: Semantic Web, Information Retrieval, Web Science, Data Analytics
Team: Harith Alani, Moizzah Asif, Gregoire Burel, , Anita Khadka, Prashant Khare, Lara Piccolo, Taha Tobaili
News
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Publications
Farrell, T., Fernandez, M., Novotny, J. and Alani, H. (2019) Exploring Misogyny across the Manosphere in Reddit, WebSci19, Boston
Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2018) Contextual Semantics for Radicalisation Detection on Twitter, Workshop: Semantic Web for Social Good Workshop (SW4SG) at International Semantic Web Conference 2018, CEUR
Cantador Gutierrez, I., E., C., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2018) What's going on in my city? Recommender systems and electronic participatory budgeting, 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys '18), Vancouver, BC, Canada, ACM
Fernandez, M., Asif, M. and Alani, H. (2018) Understanding the Roots of Radicalisation on Twitter, In WebSci '18: 10th ACM Conference on Web Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2018) Online Misinformation: Challenges and Future Directions, Web Conference 2018, Lyon, France, pp. 595-602, ACM
