Biography

Mariana Macedo is currently an Assistant Professor in Data Science at Northeastern University London. She teaches Applied Machine Intelligence, Programming for Data Science, Machine learning and data mining (1 and 2) and Bootcamps.

Mariana Macedo was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Collective Learning (CCL) and Natural Intelligence Institute (ANITI) led by Dr. César Hidalgo. In this position, we developed new digital platforms to collect data of individual preferences regarding public policies proposed by presidential candidates in multiple countries (MonProgramme2022.org and Brazucracia.org). We also collected more data from Wikipedia to feed Pantheon.world, and we released the games Trivia and Birthle on Pantheon, allowing individuals to test their memory and knowledge about famous people. From these games, we study individual and collective memory considering individual sociodemographic characteristics.

On her PhD, we studied mechanisms that might perpetuate inequality in academia and in mobility and their implications for labour market outcomes and career opportunities. In order to spillover her research to society, she participated and helped on women and young events to encourage high school or undergraduate students to study Computer Science field (academic and course). She also participated in activities from Women in Network Science which is an innitiative to encourage and help women to feel included in academia.

In general, she is interested in Human Dynamics, Gender, Race & Socioeconomic Inequalities, Data-Driven applications, Complex Systems, Urban Systems, Optimization, Swarm Intelligence, Evolutionary Computation and Multi-many objective frameworks.

She was born in Brasília, Brazil, in 1992. She received her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Exeter in 2022, and the B.Sc. and M.Sc degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Pernambuco in 2016 and 2017, respectively. She studied one extra year at Pace University as a non-degree international student sponsored by Brazil Scientific Mobility Program Fully-Funded Scholarship Recipient in 2015.