Mírian Silva

(She/Her)
A girl who likes code, books, superheroes, math, computer science, harry potter, and star wars. :)
Currently, AI Engineer at IBM Research, and Master's Student in Computer Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG, Brazil) –– doing research focusing on AI Fairness and Privacy. Professors Advisers: Ana Paula Couto da Silva, Jussara M. Almeida and Marisa Vasconcelos.

Previous Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Algorithms and Inequality Research Group, supervised by Professor Rediet Abebe. Completed B.Sc in Computational Mathematics @ UFMG, a degree based on computer science and applied mathematics. Also Instructor and creator of Guided Projects on Coursera. Black in AI community member mainly organizing workshops for the top tier AI conferences, such as NeurIPS, ICML, and NAACL. Black in AI is a place for sharing ideas, fostering collaborations, and discussing initiatives to increase the presence of Black people in the field of Artificial Intelligence; Also a member of LatinX in AI and a past volunteer of Women in Machine Learning Communities. Completely involved in actions that promote women in STEM and Founder and creator of Girls Support Girls Community in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Research topic of interest: Fairness and Bias in AI, Privacy, Explicability, Ethics & Trustworthy AI. Math Applied and Computational Biology applications.