Dr Miriam Santos, Assistant Professor at the University of Porto, has been awarded the 2025 Cor Baayen Award for her outstanding research in data quality and ethical AI.
At the Department of Computer Science of the University of Porto, Dr Santos is also a member of the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD, INESC TEC). She obtained her PhD in 2022 from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, with a thesis titled “Research Problems in Data Quality: Addressing Imbalanced and Missing Data,” supervised by Prof. Dr Pedro Henriques da Cunha Abreu. Her doctoral work received the prestigious Award for Best Ph.D. Thesis in Artificial Intelligence 2022, promoted by the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA).
Within the area of Machine Learning, Dr Santos investigates issues related to imbalanced data, missing data, and intrinsic data characteristics, focussing on how to identify, characterise, quantify, and mitigate these challenges in real-world domains. This research is central to Ethical AI, establishing the link between data properties and their effects on learning classifiers.