Member
Miriam Fernandez
Professor in Responsible Artificial Intelligence
+44 (0)1908 659400
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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25 Jan 2022
Publications
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
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 ā23), 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
