Bio
Dr Miri Zilka is a Research Associate in the Machine Learning Group at the University of Cambridge where she works on trustworthy machine learning. Her research centres around the deployment of algorithmic tools in criminal justice. Before coming to Cambridge, she was a Research Fellow in Machine Learning at the University of Sussex, focusing on fairness, equality, and access. Miri obtained a PhD from the University of Warwick in 2018. She holds an M.Sc. in Physics and a dual B.Sc. in Physics and Biology from Tel Aviv University.
Miri was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship to develop a human-centric framework for evaluating and mitigating risk in causal models, set to start in May 2022. She is a College Research Associate at King’s College Cambridge and an Associate Fellow at Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.